Ancient and Medieval History, Art and Culture

Delhi Sultanate (1206 to 1526)

A first-attempt learner with school-level reading and little retained ancient/medieval history or art history. Later chapters assume the earlier chronological context; History optional and practical arts training are outside scope.

Includes

• Selected explanatory readings, images/maps and source extracts
• Brief chronology or comparison notes
• Available mapped practice, mistake review and one initial recall review

Separate time needed

• Subsequent spaced revision and full mock examinations
• Reading every reference book and optional exercise in full
• Exclude architectural style surveys and detailed Sufi doctrine, which have separate Culture budgets.

Editorial planning estimate; not measured learner time

• Tamil Nadu State Board Class XI History Volume I (lessons 1 to 11), full text ↗

  Lesson 10 Advent of Arabs and Turks, 10.2 The Slave Dynasty: Qutb-ud-din Aibak (1206-1210); Iltutmish, pp. 169-170 (printed 165-166)

• Our Pasts II, Class VII, ch. 3 Delhi: 12th to 15th Century ↗

  ch. 3 Delhi: 12th to 15th Century, The rulers of Delhi; Understanding Delhi under the Sultans; A Closer Look: Administration (Iltutmish, bandagan), pp. 2-4 (printed 31-33)

• History of Medieval India (Satish Chandra), verified publisher contents ↗

  Chapters 6–8 and 10: Sultanate institutions and later regional states; use only sections filling gaps in the assigned school-text readings.

• Tamil Nadu State Board Class XI History Volume I (lessons 1 to 11), full text ↗

  Lesson 10, Sultanate sections

• Our Pasts II, Class VII, ch. 3 Delhi: 12th to 15th Century ↗

  Rulers, sources, expansion and administration

• History of Medieval India (Satish Chandra), verified publisher contents ↗

  Chapters 6–8 and 10: Sultanate institutions and later regional states; use only sections filling gaps in the assigned school-text readings.

  Book required