What was the sulh-i-kul, and which jizya history brackets it?3.

The coming: Central Asian Turkish power at Islam's frontier — Mahmud of Ghazni's raids (11th c.) → Muhammad Ghori's conquests (Tarain, 1192 — the north's political map redrawn) → his general Qutb-ud-din Aibak founding the Delhi Sultanate (1206). Five dynasties (theframework): the Slave (Mamluk) dynasty (Iltutmish the organiser; Balban the theorist of kingship — the divine-right zillallah, blood-and-iron against Mongols); the Khilji (Alauddin: the market-control economy — fixed prices, revenue reforms, the Deccan's first raids; the Mongols repelled); the Tughlaq (Muhammad bin Tughlaq's experiments — the capital moved (Daulatabad), the token currency — genius and disaster; Ibn Batuta's eyewitness account); the Sayyid and Lodi (the Afghan twilight) — until 1526's first battle of Panipat. The Sultanate's system (theinstitutions to know): the iqta system (revenue assignments to commanders — feudalism's Islamic cousin, and its corruption's story); the qazi courts and sharia for Muslims alongside the Hindus' own personal-law order (the jizya tax on non-Muslims, levied and repealed by turns) — the subcontinent's state legal pluralism begins here: a Muslim ruler's public law over layered personal laws — the framework the British would later re-engineer as separate personal-law codes (the direct ancestor of today's personal-law systems in the subcontinent, Nepal's included in its own way). Architecture and culture: the Qutb Minar; the Indo-Islamic synthesis (music — the qawwali; language — Persian administration…