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| | Delhi sultanate - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Delhi sultanate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | It saw Delhi become the political capital of northern India, the building of a chain of garrison towns, and the establishment of an immigrant Muslim nobility. |
 | | The final ruler, Ibrahim Lodi (reigned 1517–26), attempted to centralize authority, provoking the governor of Punjab to invite Babur, the Mogul chief of Kabul, to invade India. |
 | | However, the sultanate was faced constantly with the danger of internal rebellion and the breakaway of both its Hindu tributaries and Muslim provincial nobility, which eventually led to its demise. |
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