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How Did a Former Slave Save Delhi from the Mongols? - Blood Loyalty and Frontier Forts in Medieval India | Sleepy Facts About History
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In the thirteenth century, the Mongol armies of the Chagatai Khanate pressed against the northwestern frontier of the Indian subcontinent, turning the Punjab into a perilous border zone. The Delhi Sultanate, a wealthy but structurally fragile military state, faced the constant threat of cavalry raids and the internal fragmentation of its own Turkic nobility. This episode examines how Ghiyas ud-Din Balban, a former slave who rose to seize the throne, attempted to save his kingdom from…
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