Tughlaq

The Tughlaqs were the third dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate, ruling from 1320 to 1414. Its founder Ghazi Malik overthrew Khusro Khan and took the throne as Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq, building Tughlaqabad before his suspicious death in 1325.

His son Muhammad bin Tughluq, who reigned until 1351, pushed the sultanate to its greatest extent in 1330–1335. His forced move of the capital to Daulatabad, failed token currency and taxes drove provinces into revolt. The Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta served him as a judge and recorded his punishments and the famine beginning in 1335.

His nephew Firuz Shah, reigning from 1351 to 1388, built irrigation canals but also expanded slavery and taxed Brahmins. After his death civil wars followed, and Timur sacked Delhi in 1398. In 1414 Khizr Khan entered the city and founded the Sayyid dynasty.