The first ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, Qutb-ud-Din Aybak, commissioned the column as a symbol of triumph in 1199. After Aybak died, while playing polo after just four years of rule, his successor ...

Muhammad of Ghor invaded Delhi and established the Delhi Sultanate. In 1947, differences between Hindus and Muslims led to the partition of India by the departing British colonialists into the ...