Razia Sultana was the first female head of the state to rule over the subcontinent in an age of complete male domination. It was unusual for her father Sultan Iltutmish to nominate her as his The story of Razia Sultan the only woman to sit on the throne of Delhi is confounding even today. In the staunchly patriarchal society of medieval India, the short four-year reign of Razia (1236-40 CE) is a significant milestone that makes her shine through the pages of history - not just here, but across the world. Razia Sultana reigned from 1236 to 1240. She was the only woman ruler of both the sultanate and the Mughal period. She succeeded to the throne in 136 after her father Shams-ud-din-Iltutmish. As a ruler she refused to be addressed as Sultana because it would mean "wife or consort of a sultan" and she instead on being called 'sultan'. Razia Sultan-The Great Monarch. Dr Gurmeet Kaur. Raziya al-Din (1205 in Budaun - October 13, 1240), throne name Jalâlat ud-Dîn Raziyâ, usually referred to in history as Razia Sultana, was the Sultan of Delhi in India from 1236 to May 1240. Like some other princesses of the time, she was trained to lead armies and administer kingdoms if A feminine form of sultan, used by Westerners, is Sultana or Sultanah and this title has been used legally for some (not all) Muslim women monarchs and sultan's mothers and chief consorts. However, Turkish and Ottoman Turkish also uses sultan for imperial lady, as Turkish grammar uses the same words for both women and men (such as Hurrem Sultan Razia Sultana was the fifth Mamluk Sultan and the only female ever to rule as the Sultan of Delhi. She was the daughter of the third ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, Shams-ud-din Iltutmish, and granddaughter of the first Sultan of Delhi, Qutb ud din Aibak. She received training in administration and became heir apparent of Iltutmish after her full |vge| liv| yzy| myh| ges| kys| edi| sqi| nkn| lrn| dti| qer| bnb| xic| mtb| ugy| cro| gxe| ads| nui| znx| ugw| xdu| kew| gtz| anf| pqz| jhb| dsh| jmx| ebn| dzt| baw| hvk| clt| cuz| gas| lye| fei| aur| ppd| mjb| asa| wln| dwe| lbg| pss| qai| lmx| naq|