Who was sultan of Delhi when Timur invaded the city?
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Delhi, the national capital - known for news headlines, is now doing the rounds in the KBC.
Well, KBC anchor Amitabh Bachchan threw a question to a contestant linked to Delhi.
On Friday, October 5, Big B asked a contestant about Timur - the founder of the Timurid Empire in Persia and Central Asia, he became the first ruler in the Timurid dynasty.
Who was sultan of Delhi when Timur invaded the city?
The jam packed audience at the KBC auditorium had a thrilled for some time guessing the the correct option.
Yes, the correct option was A.
If we turn the pages of history then we fill find that the first option - Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud Shah Tughluq - was sultan of Delhi when Timur invaded the city.
According to John Joseph Saunders, Timur was "the product of an islamized and iranized society", and not steppe nomadic.[6]
Born into the Barlas confederation in Transoxiana (in modern-day Uzbekistan) on 9 April 1336, Timur gained control of the western Chagatai Khanate by 1370. From that base, he led military campaigns across Western, South and Central Asia, the Caucasus and southern Russia, and emerged as the most powerful ruler in the Muslim world, says Wikipedia.
