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Lodi Dynasty
Reign of Buhlul Khan Lodi (1451-1489)
Buhlul Khan Lodi was an Afghan noble. He was a great soldier. When Alam
Shah voluntarily abdicated the throne to him, Buhul Khan seized the
throne on April 19, 1451 with the support of his minister Hamid Khan. He
was the first Afghan ruler of Delhi. Buhlul Khan extended his
territories over Gwalior, Jaunpur and upper Uttar Pradesh. He appointed
his eldest son Barbak Shah as viceroy of Jaunpur in 1486. Buhlul Khan
was confused as to who should succeed him among his sons Barbak Shah and
Nizam Shah and grandson Azam-i-Humayun.
Reign of Sikandar Lodi (1489-1517)
After Buhlul Khan's death, his second son Nizam Shah was proclaimed the
king, under the title of Sultan Sikandar Shah, on July 17, 1489. He made
all efforts to strengthen his kingdom. He extended his kingdom from
Punjab to Bihar, and also made a treaty with Alauddin Husain Shah of
Bengal. He founded a new town in 1504 (where now the modern city of Agra
stands) to control the chiefs of Etawab, Biyana, Koli, Gwalior and
Dholapur. He was also a good administrator. He was kind to his subjects.
He died on November 21 1517.
Reign of Ibrahim (1517-1526)
After the death of Sikandar, his son Ibrahim ascended the throne. A
faction of the nobility advocated a partition of the kingdom and set up
Ibrahim's younger brother Jalal Khan on the throne of Jaunpur. But soon
Jalal Khan was assassinated by his brother's men. Ibrahim was not an
able ruler. He became more and more strict with the nobles. He used to
insult them. Thus, to take revenge of their insults, Daulat Khan Lodi,
governor of Lahore and Alam Khan, an uncle of Sultan Ibrahim, invited
Babur, the ruler of Kabul, to invade India. Ibrahim Lodi was killed at
Panipat in 1526 by the Babur army. Thus came the final collapse of Delhi
Sultanate and paved the establishment of new the Turkish rule in India.