Delhi Sultanate
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India is the successor state of the Mughal Empire (and the various Sultanates)
The post argues the Republic of India is the successor state of the Mughal Empire: it holds about 70 per cent of the empire’s land, and its capitals, ruling core…
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The Historic Task of the Pakistani Bourgeoisie
Omar Ali argues that the Two-Nation Theory is a dangerous basis for Pakistan, and that the Pakistani bourgeoisie’s historic task is to defang it or watch the state break up.…
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On the Great Mughals: Indian or not?
Looking at portraits of Akbar and Shah Jahan, the author argues the Mughals were neither simply Indian nor simply colonisers: their ancestry was mixed, Sunni orthodoxy grew after Akbar, and…
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Episode 14: The Delhi Sultanate
In episode 14 of the history podcast, Omar Ali and Jay, with Gaurav, cover the Delhi Sultanate, its major dynasties and its religious and economic aspects; Omar Ali puts it…
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Why Turks ruled India for so long
Razib Khan argues that geography and economics, chiefly Turkic and Muslim access to steppe warhorses, rather than Hindu passivity or disunity, best explain the long Turkic ascendancy in the subcontinent…
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A Mongol India, a pagan India?
Taking up a Twitter counterfactual, the author asks what might have followed had the Mongols destroyed the Delhi Sultanate, surveying how the Mongol khanates adopted Islam or Buddhism to speculate…
