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The Slave Kings: How Aibak, Iltutmish, Razia and Balban Built the Delhi Sultanate

In 1206, a slave-general with no royal blood founded India's first Islamic empire from Delhi. Within sixty years, his successors, a consolidator, a queen who defied her nobles, and an iron-fisted king who called himself God's Shadow, had built a state that would rule for three centuries.