Gujarat: Ahmad Shah (Ahmedabad), Mahmud Begarha (Champaner, Portuguese clash), Bahadur Shah cedes Diu (1535) and Bassein
Whole chapter · 16–24 focused hours
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
Where to study this topic
- Tamil Nadu State Board Class XI History Volume I (lessons 1 to 11), full text ↗
Lesson 10 Advent of Arabs and Turks, 10.6 Lodi Dynasty; 10.7 Administration (provincial kingdoms: Gujarat), pp. 177-181 (printed 173-177)
- Our Pasts II, Class VII, ch. 3 Delhi: 12th to 15th Century ↗
ch. 3 Delhi: 12th to 15th Century, The Sultanate in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, pp. 7-8 (printed 36-37)
- 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.
Whole chapter reading
- 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