title: Bengal Sultanate: Politics, Economy and Coins (AD 1205-1576)
author:  Syed Ejaz Hussain 
description: Dr. Ejaz has contributed a number of research papers in national and international conferences as well as in learned journals. He has also recieved the Charles Wallace (India) Trust Fellowship to study the Sultanate coins in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Presently Dr. Ejaz teaches History in Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan.
zlib_text: **Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji**
  
    1. Cover
    2. Preface
    3. Introduction
    4. Prologue
    5. I. Sons of Fury
    6. II. The Turquoise Throne
    7. III. Hindu Sultans
    8. IV. Rebel Sultans
    9. A Summary of Events So Far
    10. V. Saraswati’s Son
    11. VI. The Ethiopian Kingmaker
    12. VII. House of Sheep
    13. Epilogue
    14. Chapter 12
  
  **Preface**
  
   **Chronology of the principal events mentioned in this book**
  
  **1206:** Founding of the Delhi Sultanate
  
  **1296:** Alauddin Khilji’s triumph over the Yadavas of Devagiri
  
  **1308:** Second invasion of Devagiri by Malik Kafur
  
  **1310:** Malik Kafur’s triumph over the Kakatiyas of Warangal
  
  **1311:** Malik Kafur’s triumph over the Hoysalas of Dwarasamudra
  
  **1313:** Annexation of Devagiri by Malik Kafur
  
  **1318:** Rebellion of Prataparudra of Warangal quashed
  
  **1320:** Rise of the Tughluq dynasty in Delhi
  
  **1321:** Defeat of Sultanate forces at Warangal
  
  **1323:** Prataparudra is defeated and Warangal is annexed
  
  **1325: