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Delhi - the resilient city

AD 1400 - AD 1500

1414 – the last of Tughlaqs overthrown by Sayyids, who ruled from 1414 to 1451.

1451 – Delhi Sultanate entrusted to Bahlul Lodhi by the last Sayyid. Bahlul Lodhi became the first Sultan of the Lodhi dynasty.

1489 – Bahlul Lodhi died. His son Sikander Lodhi the next Sultan.

 

Mystics & Reformers 1400 –1500:

 Kabir;   Nanak b. 1469;   Chaitanya b. 1485

 

AD 1500 - AD 1526

1517 – Ibrahim Lodhi succeeded his father

1526 - Ibrahim Lodhi defeated and killed by Babar – who ushered in the Mughal dynasty.