INDIA’S FIRST (FAILED) SECULAR ALLIANCE-2
एक दुखी परिवार – १९
The Lodi dynasty was a Pashtun (Persian) dynasty that ruled Delhi Sultanate from 1451 to 1526, founded by Bahlul Khan Lodi, replacing the Sayyid dynasty.
Lodhi dynasty's reign ended under Ibrahim Lodi, who faced attacks byRana Sanga of Mewar, but finally collapsed after his defeat from Babur, drawn from Kabul, to found the Mughal Empire.
Sultan Ibrahim Khan Lodi (1517–1526), the youngest son of Sikandar, was the last Lodi Sultan of Delhi Sultan Ibrahim had the qualities of an excellent warrior, but he was a rash and impolitic in his decisions and actions.
His attempt at royal absolutism was premature and his policy of sheer repression unaccompanied by measures to strengthen the administration and increase the military resources proved counter productive.
Sultan Ibrahim faced numerous rebellions and kept out the opposition for almost a decade, engaging in warfare with the Afghans and the Mughals for most of his reign and died trying to keep the Lodi Dynasty from annihilatio, having been finally defeated in 1526, at the Battle of Panipat, by Babur’s then new gun powder and battle technology, that established supremacy of the matter on man.
Fall of the empire
By the time Ibrahim ascended the throne, the political structure in the Lodi Dynasty had dissolved due to abandoned trade routes and the depleted treasury.
The Deccan was a coastal trade route, but in the late fifteenth century the supply lines had collapsed. The decline and eventual failure of this specific trade route resulted in cutting off supplies from the coast to the interior, where the Lodi empire resided.
The Lodi Dynasty was not able to protect itself, if warfare were to break out on the trade route roads; therefore, they didn’t use those trade routes, thus their trade declined and so did their treasury, leaving them vulnerable to internal political problems interspersed by eroded economics that hurt the common man’s pocket and livlihood.
The governor of Lahore, Daulat Khan Lodi who had asked the ruler of Kabul, Babur to invade his kingdom, had his own axe to grind against Lodi, in which success was achieved as Ibrahim Lodi was thus killed in a battle with Babur.
Apart from the governor of Lahore, Daulat Khan Lodi, another Afghan noble, the governor of Bihar, Dariya Khan was pitted against Sultan Ibrahim.
Another factor that caused uprisings against Ibrahim Lodi, was his lack of an apparent successor. His own uncle, Alam Khan, betrayed Ibrahim by supporting the Mughal invader Babur.
On his victory, Babur surprised all his coalition friends, having himself claimed to be the true and rightful Monarch of the lands of the Lodi dynasty. He projected himself to be the rightful heir to the throne of Timur, that Taimur who had originally left Khizr Khan in charge of his vassal in India, who became the leader, or Sultan, of the Delhi Sultanate, founding the Sayyid dynasty, which Ibrahim Lodi, a Ghilzai Afghan of the Sayyid dynesty, had ousted.
Babur claimed to have restored that space for the Taimurs’ well deserved heir that Babur himself proudly claimed to be.
Indeed, while actively building up the troop numbers for an invasion of the India he sent a Memo to Ibrahim;
"I sent him a goshawk and asked for the countries which from old had depended on the Turk," .The 'countries' referred to by Babur, were the lands of the Delhi Sultanate.
Following the unsurprising reluctance of Ibrahim to accept the terms of this "offer," and though in no hurry to launch an actual invasion, Babur made several preliminary incursions and also, in the process, seized Kandahar — a strategic city if he was to fight off attacks on Kabul from the west while he was occupied in India - from the Arghunids.
The siege of Kandahar, however, lasted far longer than anticipated, and it was only almost three years later that Kandahar and its Citadel (backed by enormous natural features) were taken, and that minor assaults in India recommenced. During this series of skirmishes and battles an opportunity for a more extended expedition presented itself.
(Cont. …)
एक दुखी परिवार – १९
The Lodi dynasty was a Pashtun (Persian) dynasty that ruled Delhi Sultanate from 1451 to 1526, founded by Bahlul Khan Lodi, replacing the Sayyid dynasty.
Lodhi dynasty's reign ended under Ibrahim Lodi, who faced attacks byRana Sanga of Mewar, but finally collapsed after his defeat from Babur, drawn from Kabul, to found the Mughal Empire.
Sultan Ibrahim Khan Lodi (1517–1526), the youngest son of Sikandar, was the last Lodi Sultan of Delhi Sultan Ibrahim had the qualities of an excellent warrior, but he was a rash and impolitic in his decisions and actions.
His attempt at royal absolutism was premature and his policy of sheer repression unaccompanied by measures to strengthen the administration and increase the military resources proved counter productive.
Sultan Ibrahim faced numerous rebellions and kept out the opposition for almost a decade, engaging in warfare with the Afghans and the Mughals for most of his reign and died trying to keep the Lodi Dynasty from annihilatio, having been finally defeated in 1526, at the Battle of Panipat, by Babur’s then new gun powder and battle technology, that established supremacy of the matter on man.
Fall of the empire
By the time Ibrahim ascended the throne, the political structure in the Lodi Dynasty had dissolved due to abandoned trade routes and the depleted treasury.
The Deccan was a coastal trade route, but in the late fifteenth century the supply lines had collapsed. The decline and eventual failure of this specific trade route resulted in cutting off supplies from the coast to the interior, where the Lodi empire resided.
The Lodi Dynasty was not able to protect itself, if warfare were to break out on the trade route roads; therefore, they didn’t use those trade routes, thus their trade declined and so did their treasury, leaving them vulnerable to internal political problems interspersed by eroded economics that hurt the common man’s pocket and livlihood.
The governor of Lahore, Daulat Khan Lodi who had asked the ruler of Kabul, Babur to invade his kingdom, had his own axe to grind against Lodi, in which success was achieved as Ibrahim Lodi was thus killed in a battle with Babur.
Apart from the governor of Lahore, Daulat Khan Lodi, another Afghan noble, the governor of Bihar, Dariya Khan was pitted against Sultan Ibrahim.
Another factor that caused uprisings against Ibrahim Lodi, was his lack of an apparent successor. His own uncle, Alam Khan, betrayed Ibrahim by supporting the Mughal invader Babur.
On his victory, Babur surprised all his coalition friends, having himself claimed to be the true and rightful Monarch of the lands of the Lodi dynasty. He projected himself to be the rightful heir to the throne of Timur, that Taimur who had originally left Khizr Khan in charge of his vassal in India, who became the leader, or Sultan, of the Delhi Sultanate, founding the Sayyid dynasty, which Ibrahim Lodi, a Ghilzai Afghan of the Sayyid dynesty, had ousted.
Babur claimed to have restored that space for the Taimurs’ well deserved heir that Babur himself proudly claimed to be.
Indeed, while actively building up the troop numbers for an invasion of the India he sent a Memo to Ibrahim;
"I sent him a goshawk and asked for the countries which from old had depended on the Turk," .The 'countries' referred to by Babur, were the lands of the Delhi Sultanate.
Following the unsurprising reluctance of Ibrahim to accept the terms of this "offer," and though in no hurry to launch an actual invasion, Babur made several preliminary incursions and also, in the process, seized Kandahar — a strategic city if he was to fight off attacks on Kabul from the west while he was occupied in India - from the Arghunids.
The siege of Kandahar, however, lasted far longer than anticipated, and it was only almost three years later that Kandahar and its Citadel (backed by enormous natural features) were taken, and that minor assaults in India recommenced. During this series of skirmishes and battles an opportunity for a more extended expedition presented itself.
(Cont. …)
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