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RAS question

The Khalji Revolution of 1290 refers to:

Correct answer: (D) The overthrow of the Slave dynasty by Jalaluddin Khalji.

The Khalji Revolution of 1290 was the overthrow of the Slave dynasty by Jalaluddin Firuz Khalji and the establishment of Khalji rule in the Delhi Sultanate.

  1. (A)

    A trade revolution

  2. (B)

    A religious movement

  3. (C)

    A peasant revolt

  4. (D)

    The overthrow of the Slave dynasty by Jalaluddin Khalji

Explanation

The Khalji Revolution was a political change at the top of the Delhi Sultanate, not a social or economic movement. The cited INFLIBNET chapter states that Balban's successors were murdered, factional conflict weakened the Slave dynasty, and Jalaluddin Firuz Khalji led a coup in which the Mamluk successor Kaiqubad, the last ruler of the Slave dynasty, was killed. It then describes the Khalji Revolution as the overthrow of the Slave dynasty and the establishment of Khalji rule in 1290. The standard exam point is its wider implication: it ended the monopoly of the Turkish, or Ilbari, nobility and broke the racial exclusivity of the old ruling class.

Why the other options are wrong

  • (A) It was not a trade revolution because the explanation and source identify the event as a coup and dynastic change in the Delhi Sultanate.
  • (B) It was not a religious movement because the cited account describes factional politics, the murder of Kaiqubad, and the establishment of Khalji rule, not a doctrinal or devotional campaign.
  • (C) It was not a peasant revolt because the change was led by Jalaluddin Firuz Khalji within the Sultanate's ruling elite, not by agrarian groups.

Concept

This tests the Delhi Sultanate transition from the Slave dynasty to the Khalji dynasty. It recurs in RAS because medieval political change is often framed through dynastic succession, elite composition, and the social base of Sultanate power.

Source

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