This book is primarily intended for the under-graduates in our universities. The author has kept in view the requirements of the students preparing for the B.A. Examination, but it is hoped that it will prove equally useful to higher students, to those intending to appear at Competitive Examinations and to the teachers in our colleges.

In this edition the book has been thoroughly revised and two new chapters, viz., Hindu Rule in Afghanistan and Causes of the Defeat of the Hindus in Early Medieval Age, based on a study of original contemporary sources, have been added. It is hoped that in this new garb the Sultanate Of Delhi will have as good a reception from the scholars as well as students and the general reading public as was accorded to it earlier. A few mistakes of dates and facts have been corrected and Chronology of the Delhi Sultanate, genealogical tables of the ruling dynastic and some illustrations of the period have been added.