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Sikander patronized learning and scholarship during his reign. His influence initiated a renaissance of poetry and music in Delhi, with the Hindu poet Dungar teaching at a Muslim college. He was not just a generous patron of writers, but also a talented scholar and poet who wrote
Persian poetry under
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used this opportunity to reconcile with Lodi, and sent his son Kunwar
Vikramaditya to the Lodi camp with gifts for the Sultan. He promised to expel the rebels from Delhi, on the condition that Dholpur be restored to Vinayaka-deva. Sikandar Lodi agreed to these terms, and left. Historian
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fort, located to the east of
Gwalior. He ransacked the area around Mandrayal, but many of his soldiers lost their lives in a subsequent epidemic outbreak, forcing him to return to Delhi. Sometime later, Lodi moved his base to the newly established city of
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Having failed to capture the
Gwalior fort, Lodi decided to capture the smaller forts surrounding Gwalior. Dholpur and Mandrayal were already in his control by this time. In February 1507, he captured the Uditnagar (Utgir or Avantgarh) fort lying on the
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to administer the sharia law to a larger population. Although such courts were established in areas with significant Muslim population, they were also open to the non-Muslim population, including for non-religious matters such as property disputes.
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s (coins). In 1489, Sikandar Lodi succeeded Bahlul Lodi as the Sultan of Delhi. In 1500, Manasimha provided asylum to some rebels from Delhi, who had been involved in a plot to overthrow
Sikandar Lodi. The Sultan, wanting to punish
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ambushed his army near Jatwar, inflicting heavy casualties on the invaders. The
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theorizes that
Vinayaka Deva had not lost Dholpur at all: this narrative was created by the Delhi chroniclers to flatter the Sultan.
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was not prepared for an invasion from Delhi, and decided to avoid a war by paying Bahlul Lodi a tribute of 800,000
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