ABSTRACT
The Sultanate of Delhi was established in 1206 under the leadership of Qutubuddin Aibak and ended in 1526 when Sultan Ibrahim Lodi was killed in the battle of Panipat against Babur. The power struggle among the nobility was not uncommon in Delhi Sultanate. But during the reign of Firuz Tughluq, struggle for power began between the son of Firuz, Prince Muhammad and the Wazir Khan Jahan II. The army of the Sultanate fought bravely for the whole day and kept Taimur out of Delhi. But the Sultan and the wazir fled from Delhi in the evening. The regional tendencies were very strong in India since the early days of the Sultanate, although the powerful chiefs could not unite against the centralizing power. The Sultanate of Delhi can claim the credit of establishing a tri-metallic currency whose exchange rates rarely fluctuated due to the strong metallic policy of the Sultans.
