IGNOU HISTORY NOTES : India History From 8th to 15th Century - Northern and Western India

IGNOU HISTORY Study Notes for IAS, UPSC Exams

History India From 8th to 15th Century

Northern and Western India

Structure

24.0 Objectives
24.1 Introduction
24.2 Kashmir
24.3 North-West Rai~utana
24.3.1 The Ouib and the Sii
24.3 2 The Gubilols of Vagad
24.3.3 The Rarhors of Marwar
24.3.4 M~nor itajput Principalities
24.4 Gujarat
24.4.1 Relatioqs with Malwa
24.4.2 Relations with Rajputana
24.4.3 Relatl* wlth Bahmeni end Khandah
24.5 Sind - .,
24.6 Let Us Sum1 Up
24.7 Key Words I
24.8 Answers to Check Your Progress Exercises

24.0 OBJECTIVES

After reading this bnit you will know about :

the regional powers that emerged in Northern and Western India.
the territorial eNpansion of these kingdoms,
their reiationship.with neighbours and other regional powers, and
iheir relations with the Delhi Sultanate.

24.1 . INTRODUCTION

In the preceding Unit (23) you have seen how regional powers emerged in Central
and Eastern India. In this Unit, our focus would be on the emergence of regional
powers in Northern and Western India. We will discuss in this Unit the territorial
expansion of the qgional kingdoms of Kashmir. Rajputana. Sind and Gujarat.

Some of these regi~nal powers were the result of the decline of the Delhi Sultanate
while others' devebpment was independent. Kashmir developed independently of the
Sultanate while Gqarat was the outcome of its decline. Sind and Rajputana, though
all the time were fallling prey. to the Sultanate and at times even formed part of it,
succeeded in retaining their regional features.