{{Short description|Rulers of the Delhi Sultanate in India, 1451–1526}} {{For|the earlier Lodi dynasty that ruled the Emirate of Multan|Lodi dynasty of Multan}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}} {{Infobox Former Country | native_name = لودی | conventional_long_name = Lodi dynasty | common_name = Lodi dynasty | year_start = 1451 | year_end = 1526 | date_start = 19 April<ref name="sen2">{{Cite book |last=Sen |first=Sailendra |title=A Textbook of Medieval Indian History |publisher=Primus Books |year=2013 |isbn=978-9-38060-734-4 |pages=122–125}}</ref> | date_end = 21 April<ref>{{Cite book |author=Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur|title=بابرنامه (Baburnama) [Original Chagatai Turkic]|publisher=The Baburnama Project|year=2023|url=https://art.thewalters.org/detail/1759/memoirs-of-babur-2/}}</ref> | event_start = | event_end = First Battle of Panipat | p1 = Sayyid dynasty | p2 = Jaunpur Sultanate | s1 = Mughal Empire | image_map = Map of the Lodis.png | image_map_caption = Map showing the territory under the Lodi dynasty.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schwartzberg |first1=Joseph E. |title=A Historical atlas of South Asia |date=1978 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago |page=148|isbn=0226742210 |url=https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/reference/schwartzberg/query.py?object=186&display_type=image_display#gsc.tab=0}}</ref> | religion = Sunni Islam | capital = Delhi | government_type = Monarchy | legislature = | title_leader = Sultan | leader1 = Bahlul Lodi {{small|(first)}} | year_leader2 = 1489–1517 | leader2 = Sikandar Lodi {{small|(2nd)}} | year_leader3 = 1517–1526 | leader3 = Ibrahim Lodi {{small|(last)}} | year_leader1 = 1451–1489 | year_deputy1 = | official_languages = Hindavi{{sfn|Owen|Pollock|2018|p=174}}<br>Persian {{small|(court, revenue records)}}{{sfn|Owen|Pollock|2018|p=174}}{{sfn|Dale|2020|page=67}} | currency = }} The '''Lodi dynasty''' was an afghan royal family that ruled the Sultanate of Delhi from 1451 to 1526.{{sfn|Bosworth|1996|p=304}}{{efn|also known as the ''Lodi Empire''<ref>Caroe, Olaf (1958) ''[https://ia801609.us.archive.org/29/items/ThePathansByOlafCaroe/The-Pathans-By-Olaf-Caroe-ISBN10-%200710306822.pdf 'The Pathans']'' "The Lodi Empire of Delhi" pg. 163</ref>}} It was the fifth and final dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate, and was founded by Bahlul Lodi when he replaced the Sayyid dynasty.<ref name="sen2">{{Cite book |last=Sen |first=Sailendra |title=A Textbook of Medieval Indian History |publisher=Primus Books |year=2013 |isbn=978-9-38060-734-4 |pages=122–125}}</ref>
==Bahlul Lodi== {{Main|Bahlul Khan Lodi}} Following the reign of the Sayyids, the Afghan<ref>{{Citation |title=History of the Reign of the Lodi Family—of Sultan Behlol, Sultan Sekunder, and Sultan Ibrahim |date=2013-06-06 |work=History of the Afghans |pages=43–79 |url=https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139507653.008 |access-date=2026-06-01 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-05625-0}}</ref>{{sfn|Bosworth|1996|p=304}} Lodi dynasty gained the sultanate. Bahlul Khan Lodi ({{reign|1451|1489}}) was the nephew and son-in-law of Malik Sultan Shah Lodi, the governor of Sirhind in Punjab, India and succeeded him as the governor of Sirhind during the reign of Sayyid ruler Muhammad Shah. Muhammad Shah raised him to the status of a Tarun-Bin-Sultan.{{Clarify|reason=What the term means|date=May 2026}} He was the most powerful of the Punjab chiefs and a vigorous leader, holding together a loose confederacy of Afghan and Turkish chiefs with his strong personality. He reduced the turbulent chiefs of the provinces to submission and infused some vigour into the government.
After the last Sayyid ruler of Delhi, Alauddin Alam Shah voluntarily abdicated in favour of him, Bahlul Khan Lodi ascended the throne of the Delhi sultanate on 19 April 1451.<ref>Mahajan, V.D. (1991, reprint 2007). ''History of Medieval India'', Part I, New Delhi: S. Chand, {{ISBN|81-219-0364-5}}, p. 244</ref> The most important event of his reign was the conquest of the Jaunpur Sultanate. Bahlul spent most of his time in fighting against the Sharqi dynasty of the Jaunpur Sultanate and ultimately annexed it. He placed his eldest surviving son Barbak on the throne of Jaunpur in 1486. The Sharqis remained in control of Bihar, from which they re-occupied Jaunpur, but were again repulsed to Bihar.<ref>{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=jNSNDwAAQBAJ&dq=sharqi+reoccupied+jaunpur&pg=PT173 |title= The Sultanate of Delhi (1206–1526) |author= Aniruddha Ray |date= 2019 |publisher= Routledge |isbn= 9781000007299 |access-date= 10 February 2023 |archive-date= 19 March 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230319093909/https://www.google.ca/books/edition/The_Sultanate_of_Delhi_1206_1526/jNSNDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=sharqi+reoccupied+jaunpur&pg=PT173&printsec=frontcover |url-status= live }}</ref>
==Sikandar Khan Lodi== {{Main|Sikandar Khan Lodi}} {{Annotated image | image=Map_of_the_Lodis.png | width=250 <!-- DO NOT CHANGE MAP SIZE (250) AS THIS WILL DISPLACE THE LABELS --> | image-width = 250 | image-left=0 | image-top=0| float = left | annotations = {{Annotation|116|54|70px}} {{Annotation|text-align=center|134|103|<span style="color:#4F311CFF">'''JAUNPUR<br>SULTANATE'''</span>|font-weight=bold|font-style=normal|font-size=6|color=#000000}} |caption=Sikandar II finished the conquest of the Jaunpur Sultanate (Sharqis dynasty) in 1479. }} [[File:Sikandar_Lodi's_tomb_sunset.JPG|thumb|upright=1.5|The Tomb of Sikandar Lodi.]] Sikandar Khan Lodi ({{reign|1489|1517}}), born Nizam Khan, the second son of Bahlul, succeeded him after his death on 17 July 1489 and took up the title ''Sikandar Shah''. His father nominated him as his successor and he was crowned sultan on 15 July 1489. He re-founded Agra as a Muslim city in 1504 and built mosques. He shifted the capital from Delhi to Agra.<ref>Mahajan, V.D. (1991, reprint 2007). ''History of Medieval India'', Part I, New Delhi: S. Chand, {{ISBN|81-219-0364-5}}, p. 256</ref> He patronized trade and commerce. He was a reputed poet, composing Persian poetry under the pen name 'Gulrukhi'. He was also a patron of learning and ordered translations of Sanskrit works in medicine into Persian.<ref>Prof K.Ali (1950, reprint 2006)"A new history of Indo-Pakistan" Part 1, p. 311</ref> He curbed the individualistic tendencies of his Pashtun nobles and compelled them to submit their accounts to a state audit. He was thus able to infuse vigour and discipline in the administration. His greatest achievement was the conquest and annexation of Bihar from the Sharqis.<ref>Srivastava, A.L (1966). The Sultanate of Delhi (711–1526 A.D), Agra: Shiva Lal Agarwala and Company, p. 245</ref>
Sikandar Lodi was a staunch Muslim, destroying many temples all across northern India.{{sfn|Grewal|1990|p=10}} He also forbade the yearly procession of the famed Muslim martyr Masud Salar's spear,{{sfn|Grewal|1990|p=10}} while forbidding Muslim women from venerating mausoleums of Muslim saints.{{sfn|Grewal|1990|p=10}} Sikander allowed the execution of a Brahman, who had held the equal accuracy of his faith with that of Islam.{{sfn|Grewal|1990|p=10}}
==Ibrahim Lodi== [[File:Malwa Sultanate coinage of Mahmud Shah II (1510-1531 CE) in the name of Ibrahim Shah Lodi Sultan of Dehli, dated AH 927 (1520-1 CE).jpg|thumb|Coinage of Mahmud Shah II (1510-1531 CE) of the Malwa Sultanate, in the name of Ibrahim Lodi, Sultan of Delhi, dated 1520-1 CE.]] {{Main|Ibrahim Khan Lodi{{!}}Ibrahim Lodi}} Ibrahim Khan Lodi ({{reign|1517|1526}}), the eldest son of Sikandar, was the last Lodi sultan of Delhi.<ref name="sardesai146">{{cite book |first=D. R. |last=SarDesai |title=India The Definitive History |publisher=Westview Press |year=2008 |page=146 |isbn=978-0-81334-352-5}}</ref> He had the qualities of an excellent warrior, but he was 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 was sure to prove a failure.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}
Ibrahim faced numerous rebellions and kept out the opposition for almost a decade. He was engaged in warfare with the Afghans and the Timurid Empire for most of his reign and died trying to keep the Lodi dynasty from annihilation. Ibrahim was defeated in 1526 at the battle of Panipat.<ref name="sardesai146"/> This marked the end of the Lodi dynasty and the rise of the Mughal Empire in India led by Babur ({{reign|1526|1530}}).<ref name="sardesai162">{{cite book |first=D. R. |last=SarDesai |title=India The Definitive History |publisher=Westview Press |year=2008 |page=162 |isbn=978-0-81334-352-5}}</ref>
==Fall of the empire== {{South Asia in 1525 CE||Location of the Delhi Sultanate and neighbouring polities, circa 1525 CE, on the eve of the establishment of the Mughal Empire.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schwartzberg |first1=Joseph E. |title=A Historical atlas of South Asia |date=1978 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago |pages=39, 147 |isbn=0226742210 |url=https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/schwartzberg/pager.html?object=076 |access-date=21 April 2022 |archive-date=6 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220206065341/https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/schwartzberg/pager.html?object=076 |url-status=live }}</ref>}} 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.<ref name="richards">{{cite journal |last=Richards |first=John F. |author-link=John F. Richards |title=The Economic History of the Lodi Period: 1451–1526 |journal=Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=47–67 |date=August 1965 |jstor=3596342 |doi=10.1163/156852065X00020 }}</ref>
In order to take revenge of the insults done by Ibrahim, the governor of Lahore, Daulat Khan Lodi asked the Timurid ruler of Kabul, Babur to invade his kingdom.{{sfn|Hartel|1997|p=261}} Ibrahim Lodi was thereafter killed in a battle with Babur, at the battle of Panipat. With the death of Ibrahim Lodi, the Lodi dynasty also came to an end, leading to the establishment of the Mughal Empire in the subcontinent.{{sfn|Hartel|1997|p=261}}
==Afghan factionalism==
Another problem Ibrahim faced when he ascended the throne in 1517 were the Pashtun nobles, some of whom supported Ibrahim's older brother, Jalaluddin Lodi, in taking up arms against his brother in the area in the east at Jaunpur. Ibrahim gathered military support and defeated his brother by the end of the year. After this incident, he arrested those Pashtun nobles who opposed him and appointed his own men as the new administrators. Other Pashtun nobles supported the governor of Bihar, Dariya Khan, against Ibrahim.<ref name="richards"/>
Another factor that caused uprisings against Ibrahim was his lack of an apparent successor. His own uncle, Alam Khan, betrayed Ibrahim by supporting the Mughal invader Babur.<ref name="sardesai146"/>
==Rajput conflict and internal rebellions== Rana Sanga, the Rajput leader of Mewar ({{reign|1509|1526}}), extended his kingdom, and fought the Lodi king of Delhi in multiple battles. Daulat Khan, the governor of Punjab region asked Babur to invade the Lodi kingdom, with the thought of taking revenge from Ibrahim Lodi. Babar also accused Sanga of sending an invitation however, this claim has been rejected and is not widely accepted by scholars.{{sfn|Sharma|1954|pp=21–22}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Somani |first=R.V |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NcIBAAAAMAAJ |title=History of Mewar: from earliest times to 1751 A.D. |date=1976 |publisher=Mateshwari Publications |pages=169 |quote= While in Kabul, he had despatched emissaries at Chittor to obtain his help in creating a diversion on Ibrahim’s southern frontier.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Rooja |first=Hima |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qqd1RAAACAAJ |title=A History of Rajasthan |date=2006 |publisher=Rupa and Co |isbn=978-81-291-1501-0|quote=In contrast, the traditional Rajput version holds that it was not Sanga — already powerful enough and mainly successful against various enemy states — who had sent an envoy to Babur at Kabul, proposing an alliance against their common foe, Ibrahim Lodi, but rather, it was Babur who sought an ally of undoubted ability and strength for his proposed expedition against the Lodi sultan! Thus, some hold that Rana Sanga agreed to Babur’s proposal, and, using Silhadi, the Tomar (Tanwar) chief of Raesen, as the medium of communication, sent a letter to that effect to Babur. However, Sanga subsequently changed his mind upon the advice of his nobles — which advice — given the nature of the state, and the relation of the ruler as primus inter pares with his clansmen and nobles — could not be lightly ignored by any Rajput ruler or chief. Looking back, it is possible that Sanga had believed that the forces of Babur and Ibrahim Lodi would have indulged in a long and protracted struggle, thereby providing an opportunity to Mewar to take advantage of the situation and expand its own power and territorial sway across northern India. Sanga may also have believed that, if victorious against the Lodis, Babur would eventually return to his estates in Afghanistan, thereby leaving a weakened — or even defunct — Delhi Sultanate, and a clear held for Sanga to establish his own hegemony. Such a state of affairs seemed to be furthest from Babur’s mind, though.}}</ref>
==Battle of Panipat, 1526== {{Main|Battle of Panipat (1526)}} [[File:Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat (1526).jpg|thumb|Sultan Ibrahim Lodi, last Sultan of the Lodi dynasty, at the Battle of Panipat (1526) against Babur. ''Baburnama'' c.1590]] After being assured of the cooperation of Alam Khan and Daulat Khan, governor of the Punjab, Babur gathered his army. Upon entering the Punjab plains, Babur's chief allies, namely Langar Khan Niazi advised Babur to engage the powerful Janjua Rajputs to join his conquest. The tribe's rebellious stance to the throne of Delhi was well known. Upon meeting their chiefs, Malik Hast (Asad) and Raja Sanghar Khan, Babur made mention of the Janjua's popularity as traditional rulers of their kingdom and their ancestral support for his patriarch Emir Timur during his conquest of Hind. Babur aided them in defeating their enemies, the Gakhars in 1521, thus cementing their alliance. Babur employed them as generals in his campaign for Delhi, the conquest of Rana Sanga and the conquest of India.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}
The new usage of guns allowed small armies to make large gains on enemy territory. Small parties of skirmishers who had been dispatched simply to test enemy positions and tactics, were making inroads into India. Babur, however, had survived two revolts, one in Kandahar and another in Kabul, and was careful to pacify the local population after victories, following local traditions and aiding widows and orphans.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}
Despite both being Sunni Muslims, Babur wanted Ibrahim's power and territory.<ref name="sardesai162"/> Babur and his army of 24,000 men marched to the battlefield at Panipat armed with muskets and artillery. Ibrahim prepared for battle by gathering 100,000 men (well-armed but with no guns) and 1,000 elephants. Ibrahim was at a disadvantage because of his outmoded infantry and internecine rivalries. Even though he had more men, he had never fought in a war against gunpowder weapons and he did not know what to do strategically. Babur pressed his advantage from the start and Ibrahim perished on the battlefield in April 1526, along with 20,000 of his men.<ref name="sardesai146"/>
==Accession of Babur and the Mughals==
After Ibrahim's death, Babur named himself emperor over Ibrahim's territory, instead of placing Alam Khan (Ibrahim's uncle) on the throne. Ibrahim's death marked the end of the Lodi dynasty and led to the establishment of the Mughal Empire in India. The remaining Lodi territories were absorbed into the new Mughal Empire. Babur continued to engage in military campaigns.<ref>{{cite book |first=D. R. |last=SarDesai |title=India The Definitive History |publisher=Westview Press |year=2008 |page=163 |isbn=978-0-81334-352-5}}</ref>
==Mahmud Lodi== Ibrahim Lodi's brother, Mahmud Lodi, declared himself Sultan and continued to resist Mughal forces. He provided around 4,000 Afghan soldiers to Rana Sanga in the battle of Khanwa in 1527.{{sfn|Sharma|1954|p=34}} After that defeat, Mahmud Lodi fled eastwards and again posed a challenge to Babur two years later at the battle of Ghaghra in 1529.
== Religion and architecture== [[File:Bara_Gumbad_and_Bara_Gumbad_Masjid.JPG|thumb|350px|The Bara Gumbad in Lodi Gardens in Delhi, India. Built in 1490 CE, probably by Sikandar Khan, it is believed to have the earliest constructed full dome of any building in Delhi.]] Like their predecessors, the Lodi sultans stylized themselves as the deputies of the Abbasid Caliphs, and thus acknowledged the authority of a united Caliphate over the Muslim world. They provided cash stipends and granted revenue-free lands (including entire villages) to the Muslim ulama, the Sufi ''shaikhs'', the claimed descendants of Muhammad, and to the members of his Quraysh tribe.<ref name="JSGrewal_Sikhs">{{cite book |author=J. S. Grewal |title=The Sikhs of the Punjab |edition=Revised |series=The New Cambridge History of India |url=https://archive.org/details/sikhsofpunjab0000grew |url-access=registration |year=1998 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-63764-0 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/sikhsofpunjab0000grew/page/9 9]–11 }}</ref>
The Muslim subjects of the Lodis were required to pay the zakat tax for religious merit, and the non-Muslims were required to pay the jizya tax for receiving state protection. In some parts of the Sultanate, the Hindus were required to pay an additional pilgrimage tax. Nevertheless, several Hindu officers formed a part of the Sultanate's revenue administration.<ref name="JSGrewal_Sikhs"/>
Sikandar Khan Lodi, whose mother was a Hindu, resorted to strong Sunni orthodoxy to prove his Islamic credentials as a political expediency. He destroyed Hindu temples, and under the pressure from the ulama, allowed the execution of a Brahman who declared Hinduism to be as veracious as Islam. He also banned women from visiting the mazars (mausoleums) of Muslim saints, and banned the annual procession of the spear of the legendary Muslim martyr Salar Masud. He also established sharia courts in several towns with significant Muslim population, enabling the qazis to administer the Islamic law to Muslim as well as non-Muslim subjects.<ref name="JSGrewal_Sikhs"/>
<gallery widths="200px" heights="200px" perrow="4"> File:Shish_Gumbad,_Lodhi_Gardens,_Delhi.JPG|The Shish Gumbad, a tomb from the Lodi dynasty built between 1489 and 1517 CE.<ref name="Unknown Tomb">{{cite news|title=Unknown Tomb|publisher=competentauthoritydelhi.co.in|access-date=15 October 2015|url=http://competentauthoritydelhi.co.in/MonumentViewer.aspx?ID=16|archive-date=25 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325154320/http://www.competentauthoritydelhi.co.in/MonumentViewer.aspx?ID=16|url-status=live}}</ref> File:Rajon_ki_Baoli's_baoli.jpg|The Rajon ki Baoli stepwell was built by Sikandar Lodi in 1516.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sahai |first1=Surendra |title=Indian Architecture: Islamic Period, 1192–1857 |date=2004 |publisher=Prakash Books, India |isbn=978-81-7234-057-5 |page=37 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pUnqAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA37 |language=en |quote="Rajon ki baoli ( 1516 ) is one of the major public welfare projects of Sikandar Lodi ." |access-date=14 May 2022 |archive-date=19 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230319093909/https://books.google.com/books?id=pUnqAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA37 |url-status=live }}</ref> File:Lodhi Gardens Tombs 111.jpg|Lodi Gardens tombs File:Another view of tomb.jpg|Tomb of Ibrahim Lodi, last ruler of the Lodi dynasty. </gallery>
==See also== {{Delhi Sultanate|Lodi}} * Lodi (Pashtun tribe) * Lodi Gardens
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==External links== {{Commons category}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20141027035001/http://persian.packhum.org/persian/search?q=Lodhi ''A History of Sind'', Volume II, Translated from Persian Books by Mirza Kalichbeg Fredunbeg, chpt. 68] on Internet Archive *[http://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=6709 Coin Gallery – Lodi dynasty]
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