50+ Important Delhi Sultanate MCQs with Answers for UPSC, SSC & All Exams (2026)

Introduction:

The Delhi Sultanate was a medieval Islamic empire that ruled large parts of the Indian subcontinent from 1206 to 1526 A.D. It was established by Qutb-ud-din Aibak after the decline of the Ghurid Empire. The Delhi Sultanate consisted of five major dynasties i.e. Mamluk (Slave) dynasty, Khilji dynasty, Tughlaq dynasty, Sayyid dynasty, and Lodi dynasty. It played a important role in shaping India’s political, cultural, and architectural history. The rulers also faced challenges like Mongol invasions and internal revolts. The Sultanate ended in 1526 after Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodi in the First Battle of Panipat 1526.

Here are, 50+ Gk MCQs about Delhi Sultanate:

Q.1 Who was the founder of the slave dynasty?

A) Muhammad Ghori

B) Qutb-ud-din Aibak

C) Shams ud-Din Iltutmish

D) Ghiyasuddin Balban

Answer: B) Qutb-ud-din Aibak (1206-1290)

Q.2 In which year was the Delhi Sultanate established?

A) 1192 A.D

B) 1206 A.D

C) 1210 A.D

D) 1212 A.D

Answer: B) 1206 A.D

Q.3 Which Sultan of Delhi started the construction of the Minar in Delhi?

A) Ruknuddin

B) Qutb-ud-din Aibak

C) Shams ud-Din Iltutmish

D) Bahram Shah

Answer: B) Qutb-ud-din Aibak

Q.4 Who succeeded Qutb-ud-din Aibak as the ruler of the Slave Dynasty?

A) Shams ud-Din Iltutmish

B) Razia Sultana

C) Aram Shah

D) Masud Shah

Answer: C) Aram Shah (1210-11)

Q.5 Which ruler introduced the silver coin ‘tanka’ and copper coin ‘jital’?

A) Ghiyasuddin Balban

B) Mubarak Khan

C) Alauddi Khilji

D) Shams ud-Din Iltutmish

Answer: D) Shams ud-Din Iltutmish

Q.6 Who was the first and only female ruler of the Delhi Sultanate?

A) Nur Jahan

B) Fakrun Nisa

C) Razia Sultana

D) Zainab Sultan Begum

Answer: C) Razia Sultana

Q.7 Who was the last ruler of the Slave Dynasty?

A) Ghiyasuddin Balban

B) Muiz-ud-din Muhammad Qaiqabad

C) Khusrau Khan

D) Mohammad bin Tughlaq

Answer: B) Muiz-ud-din Muhammad Qaiqabad

Q.8 Who founded the Khalji Dynasty?

A) Alauddin Khilji

B) Jalal-ud-din Khilji

C) Malik Kafur

D) Mubarak Shah

Answer: B) Jalal-ud-din Khilji

Q.9 Which ruler introduced the system of market control and price regulation?

A) Alauddin Khalji

B) Mohammad bin Tughlaq

C) Alam Shah

D) Sikandar Lodi

Answer: A) Alauddin Khalji

Q.10 Who was the military general of Alauddin Khalji’s who led Deccan campaigns?

A) Khusrau Khan

B) Malik Kafur

C) Mubarak Shah

D) Muhammad Shah

Answer: B) Malik Kafur

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Q.11 During the rule of which Delhi sultan, ‘Dalucha Khan’ invaded Kashmir valley?

A) Alauddin Khilji

B) Jalaluddin Khilji

C) Mubarak Shah

D) Muhammad bin Tughlaq

Answer: D) Muhammad bin Tughlaq

Q.12 Who was the last ruler of the Khalji Dynasty?

A) Khizr Khan

B) Mahmud Shah

C) Khusrau Khan

D) Alam Shah

Answer: C) Khusrau Khan

Q.13 Who founded the Tughlaq Dynasty?

A) Mohammad bin Tughlaq

B) Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq

C) Firoz Shah Tughlaq

D) Mahmud Shah Tughlaq

Answer: B) Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq

Q.14 Which Sultan built the Tughlaqabad Fort?

A) Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq

B) Mohammad bin Tughlaq

C) Firoz Shah Tughlaq

D) Mahmud Shah Tughlaq

Answer: A) Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq

Q.15 Which Sultan shifted the capital from Delhi to Daulatabad?

A) Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq

B) Mohammad bin Tughlaq

C) Firoz Shah Tughlaq

D) Mahmud Shah Tughlaq

Answer: B) Mohammad bin Tughlaq

Q.16 Which Sultan introduced token currency in India?

A) Qutubuddin Aibak

B) Alauddin Khilji

C) Muhammad bin Tughlaq

D) Ibrahim Lodi

Answer: C) Muhammad bin Tughlaq

Q.17 Which Sultan built the Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi?

A) Muhammad Shah

B) Firoz Shah Tughlaq

C) Bahlol Lodi

D) Sikandar Lodi

Answer: B) Firoz Shah Tughlaq

Q.18 Which ruler was known for restoring Ashokan pillars?

A) Jalaluddin Khilji

B) Mubarak Khan

C) Firoz Shah Tughlaq

D) Khizr Khan

Answer: C) Firoz Shah Tughlaq

Q.19 Who was the last ruler of the Tughlaq Dynasty?

A) Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq

B) Mohammad bin Tughlaq

C) Firoz Shah Tughlaq

D) Nasir-ud-din Mahmud Shah Tughlaq

Answer: D) Nasir-ud-din Mahmud Shah Tughlaq

Q.20 Who founded the Sayyid Dynasty?

A) Alam Shah

B) Khizr Khan

C) Mubarak Shah

D) Mahmud Shah

Answer: B) Khizr Khan

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Q.21 Which dynasty did Khizr Khan serve as a governor before becoming Sultan?

A) Slave dynasty

B) Khilji dynasty

C) Tughlaq Dynasty

D) Sangama dynasty

Answer: C) Tughlaq Dynasty

Q.22 Who succeeded Khizr Khan as Sultan of Delhi?

A) Mubarak Shah

B) Mubarak Hassan

C) Ghazi Malik

D) Mahmud Shah

Answer: A) Mubarak Shah

Q.23 Which Sultan of the Sayyid Dynasty was known for rebuilding several cities?

A) Alam Shah

B) Khizr Khan

C) Mubarak Shah

D) Muhammad Shah

Answer: C) Mubarak Shah

Q.24 Who founded the Lodi Dynasty?

A) Daulat Khan Lodi

B) Bahlol Lodi

C) Ibrahim Lodi

D) Sikandar Lodi

Answer: B) Bahlol Lodi

Q.25 Who was the first Afghan Sultan of Delhi?

A) Bahlul Lodi

B) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq

C) Khizr Khan

D) Alam Shah

Answer: A) Bahlul Lodi

Q.26 Who succeeded Bahlul Lodi the Sultan of Delhi?

A) Daulat Khan Lodi

B) Sikandar Lodi

C) Ibrahim Lodi

D) Sher Afghan

Answer: B) Sikandar Lodi

Q.27 Which Sultan of Delhi founded the city of Agra?

A) Firoz Shah Tughlaq

B) Alauddin Khilji

C) Mahmud Shah Tughlaq

D) Sikandar Lodi

Answer: D) Sikandar Lodi

Q.28 Who was the last Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate?

A) Sikandar Lodi

B) Daulat Khan Lodi

C) Sher Afghan

D) Ibrahim Lodi

Answer: D) Ibrahim Lodi (1517-26)

Q.29 Which battle marked the end of the Delhi Sultanate?

A) Battle of Khanwa

B) Battle of Chanderi

C) First Battle of Panipat

D) Battle of Chausa

Answer: C) First Battle of Panipat (1526)

Q.30 Who defeated Ibrahim Lodi in the First Battle of Panipat?

A) Babur

B) Humayun

C) Sher Shah Suri

D) Rana Sanga

Answer: A) Babur

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Q.31 Who established the ‘Chahalgani’, a group of forty nobles?

A) Shamsuddin Iltutmish

B) Alauddin Khilji

C) Ghiyasuddin Balban

D) Muhammad bin Tughlaq

Answer: A) Shamsuddin Iltutmish

Q.32 Which ruler abolished the Chahalgani system?

A) Masud Shah

B) Ghiyasuddin Balban

C) Nasiruddin Mahmud

D) Muhammad Qaiqubad

Answer: B) Ghiyasuddin Balban

Q.33 Which Sultan encouraged music and dance at his court despite opposition from orthodox clergy?

A) Alauddin Khalji

B) Khusrau Khan

C) Muhammad bin Tughlaq

D) Bahlol Lodi

Answer: A) Alauddin Khalji

Q.32 Who was the famous Persian historian in the court of Alauddin Khalji?

A) Alberuni

B) Ziauddin Barani

C) Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya

D) Amir Khusrau

Answer: D) Amir Khusrau

Q.33 Which Sultan declared himself as the representative of God on Earth (Zill-e-Ilahi)?

A) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq

B) Ghiyasuddin Balban

C) Nasiruddin Mahamud

D) Masud Shah

Answer: B) Ghiyasuddin Balban

Q.34 Who was the court poet during the reign of Muhammad bin Tughlaq?

A) Minhaj-us-Siraj

B) Ziauddin Barani

C) Hasan Nizami

D) Ibn Battutah

Answer: B) Zia-ud-din Barani

Q.35 What was the Diwan-i-Arz?

A) Department of Military

B) Department of Agriculture

C) Department of Slaves

D) Department of Pensions

Answer: A) Department of Military

Q.36 Which Sultan is credited with popularizing the use of paper in India?

A) Khizr Khan

B) Shams ud-Din Iltutmish

C) Muhammad bin Tughlaq

D) Sikandar Lodi

Answer: C) Muhammad bin Tughlaq

Q.37 Which Sultan abolished the Jaziya tax during his reign?

A) Alauddin Khilji

B) Firoz Shah Tughlaq

C) Alam Shah

D) Ibrahim Lodi

Answer: B) Firoz Shah Tughlaq

Q.38 Which monument was started by Qutb-ud-din Aibak and completed by Iltutmish?

A) Qutub Minar

B) Quwat-ul-Islam

C) Adhai din ka Jhopra

D) Moti Masjid

Answer: A) Qutub Minar

Q.39 Which Sultan built the Jahan Panah fort in Delhi?

A) Alauddin Khilji

B) Shamsuddin Iltutamish

C) Muhammad bin Tughlaq

D) Bahram Shah

Answer: C) Muhammad bin Tughlaq

Q.40 Which ruler of Lodi dynasty built the Lodi Gardens in Delhi?

A) Bahlol Lodi

B) Sikandar Lodi

C) Ibrahim Lodi

D) Daulat Khan Lodi

Answer: B) Sikandar Lodi

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Q.41 Who was the author of the book, ‘Tabaqat-i-Nasiri’?

A) Alberuni

B) Minhaj-us-Siraj

C) Amir Khusrau

D) Hasan Nizami

Answer: B) Minhaj-us-Siraj

Q.42 During the rule of which Delhi sultanate, Timur the Lame came in India?

A) Khizr Khan

B) Firoz Shah Tughlaq

C) Mahmud Shah Tughlaq

D) Mubarak Shah

Answer: C) Mahmud Shah Tughlaq

Q.43 Who wrote ‘Futuh-us-Salatin’?

A) Amir Khusrau

B) Abdul Malik Isami

C) Ibrahim Lodi

D) Minhaj-us-Siraj

Answer: B) Abdul Malik Isami

Q.44 Which traveller wrote ‘Rihla’ describing India during the Delhi Sultanate?

A) Al-Biruni

B) Marco Polo

C) Ibn Battuta

D) Abdur Razzaq

Answer: C) Ibn Battuta

Q.45 Who among the following is known as the “Parrot of India” (Tuti-i-Hind)?

A) Amir Khusrau

B) Hasan Nizami

C) Barani

D) Al-Biruni

Answer: A) Amir Khusrau

Q.46 The first major Mongol threat to India appeared during the reign of which Delhi Sultan?

A) Alauddin Khilji

B) Shams ud-Din Iltutmish

C) Razia Sultan

D) Muhammad-bin-Tuglaq

Answer: B) Shams ud-Din Iltutmish

Q.47 During whose reign did Genghis Khan reach the borders of India while chasing Jalal-ud-din Mangbarni?

A) Shamsuddin Iltutmish

B) Bahram Shah

C) Ghiyasuddin Balban

D) Qutb-ud-din Aibak

Answer: A) Shamsuddin Iltutmish

Q.2 During whose reign did Genghis Khan reach the borders of India while chasing Jalal-ud-din Mangbarni?
A) Qutb-ud-din Aibak
B) Iltutmish
C) Balban
D) Alauddin Khilji
Answer: B) Iltutmish

Q.48 Who successfully repelled repeated Mongol invasions and strengthened the northwest frontier?

A) Alauddin Khilji

B) Firoz Shah Tughlaq

C) Nasiruddin Mahmud

D) Minhaj-us-Siraj

Answer: A) Alauddin Khilji

Q.49 The Mongol invasions during the Delhi Sultanate mainly targeted which region of India?

A) Eastern India

B) Southern India

C) North-West Frontier

D) Central India

Answer: C) North-West Frontier

Q.50 Who among the following is known as the “Parrot of India” (Tuti-i-Hind)?

A) Eastern India

B) Southern India

C) North-West Frontier

D) Central India

Answer: C) North-West Frontier

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Q.51 The Lodi Dynasty belonged to which ethnic group?

A) Turks

B) Mongols

C) Afghans

D) Persians

Answer: C) Afghans (Pashtun)

Q.52 The Mongol invasions during the Delhi Sultanate mainly targeted which region of India?

A) Eastern India

B) Southern India

C) North-West Frontier

D) Central India

Answer: C) North-West Frontier

Q.53 Who among the following Delhi sultan composed poems with the pen name ‘Gulrukhi’?

A) Ibrahim Lodi

B) Sikandar Lodi

C) Alauddin Khilji

D) Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq

Answer: B) Sikandar Lodi

Q.54 Which Delhi sultan introduced ‘Iqta’ system?

A) Samsuddin Iltutmish

B) Ghiyasuddin Balban

C) Muhammab-bin-Tuglaq

D) Alauddin Khilji

Answer: A) Samsuddin Iltutmish

Q.55 Which ruler of Delhi Sultanate introduced ‘Rationing system’ in India?

A) Ghiyasuddin Balban

B) Muhammad-bin-Tuglaq

C) Firoz Shah Tuglaq

D) Alauddin Khilji

Answer: D) Alauddin Khilji

Conclusion:

The decline of the Delhi Sultanate was the result of multiple political, administrative, and military weaknesses. Continuous internal rebellions, weak successors, and lack of a strong central authority weakened the empire. The later rulers of the Lodi dynasty faced opposition from nobles and regional governors, leading to instability. External threats, especially invasions, further weakened the Sultanate. Economic issues and administrative inefficiency also contributed to its downfall. Ultimately, the defeat of Ibrahim Lodi by Babur in 1526 in the First Battle of Panipat marked the end of the Delhi Sultanate and the beginning of the Mughal Empire in India.

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