LODI DYNASTY | Indian history [short notes for UPSC]

BEHLOL LODI 1451- 1489 AD

  • BEHLOL LODI ESTABLISHED THE FIRST AFGHAN STATE IN DELHI.
  • HE GOT THE THRONE OF DELHI WITH THE TITLE OF ‘GAZI‘.
  • HE CALLED HIS SARDARS ‘MAKSAD- I- ALI‘.
  • HIS SON AND SUCCESSOR WAS SIKANDAR LODI.

SIKANDAR LODI 1489 – 1517 AD

  • HIS REAL NAME WAS NIZAM KHAN.
  • HE DEFEATED HUSAIN SHAH SHARKI OF JAUNPUR.
  • HE INTRODUCED SIKANDARI PAIMANA FOR LAND MEASUREMENT.
  • HE DESTROYED THE JWALAMUKHI TEMPLE OF NAGARKOT.
  • ON HIS ORDER THE SANSKRIT BOOK ‘AYURVEDA’ WAS TRANSLATED IN PERSIAN AS FARHANGE SIKANDAR.
  • IN 1504 HE ESTABLISHED THE CITY OF AGRA AND LATER HE SHIFTED HIS CAPITAL THERE.
  • HE COMPOSED MANY POEMS IN THE PERSIAN LANGUAGE UNDER THE TITLE ‘GULRUKHI’.
  • HE DIED DUE TO THE DISEASE OF THE THROAT IN NOVEMBER 1517 AD.
  • HIS SON AND SUCCESSOR WERE IBRAHIM LODI.

IBRAHIM LODI 1517-1526 AD

  • HE THRONGED HIMSELF WITH THE TITLE OF IBRAHIM SHAH.
  • DAULAT KHAN LODI (RULER OF PUNJAB) AND ALAM KHAN (UNCLE OF IBRAHIM LODI) INVITED BABUR TO ATTACK ON DELHI.
  • ON 21 APRIL 1526 AD THE FIRST BATTLE OF PANIPAT WAS FOUGHT BETWEEN IBRAHIM LODI AND BABUR.
  • HE WAS DEFEATED AND KILLED IN THIS BATTLE.