(i) A combination of Persian and Indian architecture is called Indo Saracenic architecture.
(ii) Mosques and Madrasas were built in this style during the Mughal rule.
(iii) The shape of these buildings were persian while the decoration was Indian.
Eg. Qutb Minar, Alai-Darwaza, tombs of Iltutmish.

Sack of Chittor: When Ala-ud-din's army overwhelmed the Rajput army in Chittor and in the context of threat of defeat, the men and women of the fortress, in accordance with their old custom, performed the rite of jauhar.

(i) Firoz rewarded Sufis and other religious leaders generously and listened to their advice.
(ii) He also created charities to aid poor Muslims
(iii) He built colleges, mosques, and hospitals.
(iv) He banned inhuman punishments and abolished taxes not recognised by Muslim law.
(v) He promoted agriculture by waiving off the debts of the agriculturalists and constructing many canals for irrigation.
(vi) He built new towns such as Firozabad, Jaunpur, Hissar and Firozpur.

(i) The range of Khalji conquests is impressive in the Punjab (against the Mongols), in Rajasthan and in Gujarat. With his northern frontiers secure, he sent his chief lieutenant Malik Kafur into the southern parts who took even the distant Madurai.
(ii) Thus Ala-ud-din Khalji consolidated the Delhi Sultanate.

Sikandar Lodi founded the city of Agra.

Iqta is the land granted to army officials in lieu of a regular wage.

(i) Ala-ud-din's political and administrative reforms were as impressive.
(ii) Ala-ud-din undertook a survey of the agrarian resources around his capital and fixed a standard revenue demand.
(iii) He entrusted the task of collecting the revenue to the military officers.
(iv) Ala-ud-din established a system of forced procurement of food grains for Delhi and other garrison centres.
(v) The procurement prices were fixed and grain collected as tax was stored in state granaries.
(vi) To ensure the enforcement of his new regulations.
(v) He employed spies who were responsible to report to him directly.

Muhammaad-bin- Tughlug was a learned but cruel man. He was a poor decision maker. There was chaos in the social, economic and political condition of the empire because of his ambiguous decisions. The first and foremost was changing the capital from Delhi to Devagiri or Daulatabad and vice versa which led to loss of money and human lives. He also ordered the revenue to be collected in money instead of grains. This move led to bankruptcy and famine. Though he was wise and learned his hasty decisions led to his downfall.

(i) The sacking and massacre by Tamerlane or Timur of Delhi came a decade after Firuz Shah Tughluq died.
(ii) Timur had occupied some parts in the north-west of India.
(iii) Taking advantage of India's weakness, he entered India in December 1398 and plundered Delhi.
(iv) Punjab, besides the Delhi city, was the province that suffered most by Timur's raid.
(v) Apart from carrying huge wealth in the form of gold, silver, jewels, also took along Indian artisans like carpenters and masons to work on monuments in Samarkand.