1 Tanka - Jalal al-Din Firuz Khilji Hadrat Dehli mint

Jalal al-Din Firuz Khilji seized the Delhi throne in 1290 at roughly 70 years old, having spent decades as a military commander under the Balban sultans. His six-year reign was defined by a conspicuous reluctance to project the ruthlessness expected of a medieval sultan — he famously refused to execute the followers of a Thug cult captured near Delhi, releasing them instead. That political hesitancy ultimately cost him his life when his nephew and son-in-law Alauddin had him assassinated at Kara in 1296, seizing the sultanate immediately after.

The Hadrat Dehli mint designation on this tanka reflects the formal honorific applied to the capital's primary striking facility under Khalji administration.