1 Jital - Jalal-ud-Din Raziya

Raziya al-Din, who ruled the Delhi Sultanate from 1236 to 1240, was the first female sovereign in the history of the subcontinent's Islamic dynasties — placed on the throne by the Turkish slave-officer nobility after her father Iltutmish explicitly named her his successor over her brothers. The clerical and military establishment eventually turned against her, and she was deposed and killed in 1240 after less than four years of rule. Coins issued in her name are accordingly scarce by any reign-length measure.