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Why Did the Delhi Sultanate's Slave Kings Face Constant Rebellions? - The Mamluk Sultans of Delhi | Sleepy Facts About History
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For most of human history, a person born into slavery remained trapped at the bottom of the social hierarchy. Yet in the early Delhi Sultanate, young boys captured on the Central Asian steppe, stripped of their families, and trained as elite military slaves could theoretically rise to become absolute rulers. How did a system built on coerced servitude produce independent sultans, and why did it eventually generate so much political chaos?
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