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Akrofi-Quarcoo, Sarah, and Audrey Gadzekpo. "Indigenizing radio in Ghana." Radio Journal:International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media 18, no. 1 (April 1, 2020): 95–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/rjao_00018_1.

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Radio is hailed as Africa’s medium of choice in the global communication age. Introduced as a colonial tool of information, education and entertainment in the early 1930s, radio broadcasting was mainly in colonial languages as colonial administrators perceived local language broadcasting a threat to their empire building and ‘civilization’ agendas. The fortunes of local language broadcasting did not dramatically change in the independence era when broadcast media were in the firm control of the state. From the beginning of the twenty-first century, however, mostly resulting from a more liberalized media environment, local language broadcasting has undergone unprecedented growth. Drawing on written archival material, including internal communication among policy-makers, audience letters, key informant interviews and findings from a recent audience study, this article charts the progressive development of local language radio broadcasting in Ghana, and engages with the role played by early audiences and broadcasters in indigenizing broadcast content.

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Afosa, Kwame. "FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION OF ANCIENT ASHANTI EMPIRE." Accounting Historians Journal 12, no. 2 (September 1, 1985): 109–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/0148-4184.12.2.109.

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Ashanti was an empire which flourished in the forest region of present-day Ghana in the 16th and 17th centuries. Ashanti was a monarchy with a bureaucracy financed through taxes. The system of tax collection was one of apportionment among the levels of the social strata that were required to bear the tax burden. Accounting controls over funds which finally reached the coffers of the monarch involved boxes.The operations and uses of Adaka Kesie (the Big Box) and Apim Adaka (the Box of Thousand) could be likened to a current account and a petty cash account respectively.

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Adu-Gyamfi, Samuel, and Eugenia Anderson. "History education in Ghana: a pragmatic tradition of change and continuity." Historical Encounters: A journal of historical consciousness, historical cultures, and history education 8, no. 2 (May 6, 2021): 18–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.52289/hej8.201.

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History education in Ghana has been situated within the pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial trajectories and debates. Whereas there is a conscious effort by history teacher associations, academics and other interest groups to advance and develop the teaching of the subject at different levels of the educational system in Ghana, little attention has been paid to how the textbooks have conceptualised the cultural, ethnic and indigenous histories with their attendant differences and how they have affected or complicated narratives in the postcolonial setting of Ghana. Essentially, this contribution highlights how historical themes on empire, colonisation, decolonisation and the Commonwealth, and associated events, are explored in historiography and in the curricula of Ghana. This involves an examination of the dynamic relationship between political traditions, curriculum, historiography, and scholarship at university level. Overall, the paper highlights the political contexts that have shaped the various stages and manifestations of the history curriculum as it concerns British influence, decolonisation, independence and postcolonialism in Ghana before, during and after the development of the Nkrumahist and Danquah-Busia traditions.

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Camara, Sidy. "The history of the Notion of the State in West Africa: from the destruction of empires to the emergence of the modern state resulting from colonization (the case of the Mali Empire)." RUDN Journal of World History 12, no. 1 (December 15, 2020): 28–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2312-8127-2020-12-1-28-34.

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This article aims to address the question of the emergence of empires in West Africa from the ninth century to the present day. The author plans to make an in-depth analysis of the political formation of the different empires which have succeeded each other in this vast West African space which nowadays shelters the current republics of Mali and Mauritania in particular and in general throughout other West African countries (Guinea, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Burkina Faso, Niger). The largest and most famous empires that appeared on the territory of what is now Mali is called the Ghana Empire in the 9th century and was succeeded by the Mali or Mandé Empire in the 13th century. The influence of these empires throughout Africa and the rest of the world shows us a particular interest in understanding over time the notion of the State in Africa before the colonization and destruction of the African political system and its replacement by colonial state with the arrival of Europeans. Today the question of the weakness of the modern or postcolonial state in Africa and Mali poses many questions not only in the concert of nations but also in the academic and university environment. We will try to demonstrate in this article the link between the break in the evolution of the African state and the imposition of the modern European state through the colonial state which is at the root of the backwardness of African countries in terms political, economic and social compared to the rest of the world.

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Oppong, Seth. "History of psychology in Ghana since 989AD." Psychological Thought 10, no. 1 (April 28, 2017): 7–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/psyct.v10i1.195.

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Psychology as taught in Ghanaian universities is largely Eurocentric and imported. Calls have been made to indigenize psychology in Ghana. In response to this call, this paper attempts to construct a history of psychology in Ghana so as to provide a background for the study of the content and process of what psychology would and/or ought to become in Ghana. It does so by going as far back as the University of Sankore, Timbuktu established in 989AD where intellectual development flourished in the ancient Empire of Mali through to the 1700s and 1800s when Black Muslim scholars established Koranic schools, paying particular attention to scholarly works in medicine, theology and philosophy. Attention is then drawn to Anton Wilhelm Amo’s dissertation, De Humanae Mentis “Apatheia” and Disputatio Philosophica Continens Ideam Distinctam (both written in 1734) as well as some 18th and 19th century Ghanaian scholars. Special mention is also made about the contributions by the Department of Psychology at the University of Ghana (established in May 1967) in postcolonial Ghana as one of the first departments of psychology in Anglophone West Africa. The paper also discusses the challenges associated with the application of psychological knowledge in its current form in Ghana and ends by attempting to formulate the form an indigenous Ghanaian psychology could to take.

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Lange, Dierk. "La Chute De La Dynastie Des Sisse: Considerations Sur La Dislocation De L'Empire Du Ghana A Partir De L'Histoire De Gao." History in Africa 23 (January 1996): 155–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3171939.

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Les Sissé étaient un clan royal établi au Ghana dont le règne s'étendait au moins jusqu'à l'époque almoravide. La plupart des historiens partagent en effet la conviction que l'empire du Ghana des auteurs arabes correspond au Wagadou de la tradition soninké et de ce fait ils estiment que les Sissé connus par la tradition furent les rois du Ghana. Mais, malgré ces identifications plausibles il est évident que la reconstruction de l'histoire du plus ancien empire ds l'Afrique occidentale qui en ressort est fondée sur des bases fragiles. La fragilité de cette reconstruction devient éclatante quand on se tourne vers la question de la dislocation du Ghana.Jusqu'à une date récente l'opinion prévalait que le Ghana fut l'objet d'une conquête par les Almoravides à la suite de laquelle sa vitalité fut brisée. D. Conrad et H. Fisher ont pris le contre-pied de cette opinion en soutenant que ni les textes écrits, ni les traditions orales ne portaient trace d'une telle conquête. Ils contestent l'existence d'une rupture dynastique correspondante et ils nient que le Ghana fut affaibli par l'intermède almoravide. D'autres voix se sont levées qui mettent en évidence les dangers d'une approche trop littéraliste. Mais malgré les efforts déployés une quasi-certitude ne fut jamais mise en question: l'emplacement de l'empire du Ghana. Pour les auteurs concernés l'identité entre le Ghana et le Wagadou constituait un problème, mais la solution de ce problème fut toujours cherchée dans la convergence des différentes indications sur Koumbi Saleh en tant que capitale de l'empire des Sissé et donc des Soninké.

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Serapiao, Luis B. "International Law and Self-Determination: The Case of Eritrea." Issue 15 (1987): 3–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047160700505976.

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Writing about the Eritrean conflict in the Horn of Africa is a difficult task, because it involves the issue of dismembership of a state. From the Greek Empire to the Roman, from the feudal era to the colonial times, and now in the post-colonial era, dismembership of the state has been a highly controversial and emotional issue. From the colonial era to decolonization, Africans did not have to face this problem. In fact, not only did they applaud the dismembership of the colonial empire, they worked hard to insure the disintegration of the colonies. In their optimism for the future of Africa, they developed a rhetoric that went beyond cooperation among future independent states to continental political unity. “Africa must unite” said the vibrant and dynamic leader of Ghana, Nkrumah.

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van der Heyden, Ulrich. "Kolonialgeschichte Westafrikas – Exempel für Globalgeschichte." Das Historisch-Politische Buch (HPB): Volume 68, Issue 1 68, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 2–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.3790/hpb.68.1.1.

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Osei-Tutu / John Kwadwo / Smith / Victoria Ellen (Ed.): Shadows of Empire in West Africa. New Perspectives on European Fortification. 368 S., Palgrave Macmillan, London 2018 Osei-Tutu / John Kwadwo (Ed.): Forts, Castles and Society in West Africa. Gold Coast and Dahomey, 1450 – 1960. 376 S., Brill, Leiden / Boston 2018 Wazi Apoh: Revelations of Domination and Resilience. Unearthing the buried Past of the Akpini, Akan, Germans and British at Kpando, Ghana. 336 S., Sub-Saharan Publishers, Legon-Accra 2019

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Bühnen, Stephan. "In Quest of Susu." History in Africa 21 (1994): 1–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3171880.

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The political history of the medieval Western Sudan was dominated by a succession of empires exerting their domination over the region: Ghana, Mali, and finally Songhay. Oral tradition is our only evidence for the existence of yet another empire. It was called Susu and exerted its supremacy after the decline of Ghana and before the rise of Mali. Most historical treatises locate enigmatic Susu in the Kaniaga region northwest of Segou. These treatises are mainly based on oral traditions and medieval Arabic chronicles.After rereading the conventional historical sources and examining passages in Portuguese sources thus far untapped for the history of the Western Sudan, I feel induced to present a new identification for Susu. The Portuguese evidence appears to point to a vast but nearly forgotten kingdom in the Futa Jalon and Upper Niger region as the historical descendant of ancient Susu, thus indicating the latter's location. This kingdom was called Jalo and Concho. Its ethnic core were the Susu and Jalonke, and it was on its ruins that the Muslim Fula conquerors erected the state of Futa Jalon in the eighteenth century. My interpretation of oral traditions and Arabic sources also leads me to assume an identity of Susu with the kingdoms of Sankaran and Do. I will attempt to demonstrate the identity of the polities bearing these different names in sections introducing these polities, most of which have never been subjected to close historical investigation.

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Johnson, Sylvester A. "Divine Imperium and the Ecclesiastical Imaginary: Church History, Transnationalism, and the Rationality of Empire." Church History 83, no. 4 (December 2014): 1003–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009640714001218.

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Laurie Maffly-Kipp's address to the American Society of Church History proffers the challenge of engaging seriously with the “church” in church history. She notes that scholarship on Christianity has increasingly focused on broader cultural themes in lieu of a more strict concern with churches as institutions in their own right. Maffly-Kipp's challenge reminded me of a particular context in the history of Christianity: the eighteenth-century city-state of Ogua (or, more familiarly, Cape Coast), in present-day Ghana. In the 1750s, the family of a local youth sent their child, Philip Quaque, to study abroad in London under the auspices of the Anglican Church. The young Quaque spent the next eleven years of this life cultivating expertise in Anglican liturgy, Christian theology, and British mores. Before returning home in his early twenties, he was ordained to the Anglican priesthood—the first African to have done so.

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Parker, John Stephen. "Ga state and society in early colonial Accra, 1860s-1920s." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297229.

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Sameland, Carl. "“Would you like a side of democracy with that imperialism?” : Mill’s arguments applied to the colonies of the Gold Coast and Senegal." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-100348.

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In this disciplined configurative case-study the effects of imperialistic rule on the democratization of the colonies Ghana (Gold Coast) and Senegal during their colonization. The positive effects of imperialism will be represented by the liberal thinker J.S. Mill. To measure the positive outcome have this study created a model of analysis in which the operationalization of Mill’s arguments will be represented. The indicators will be applied to the history of Senegal and Ghana, from acquisition of the territory to their independence. What this study found was that both Senegal and Ghana had experienced a democratization process, but with the Ghahanian democratization being more inclusive and more encompassing. This was due to the British allowing self-governance while the French only allowed democracy in the Four Communes.

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Van, Doosselaere Barbara. "Poterie et histoire au temps des grands empires ouest africains : études technologiques de l'assemblage céramique de Koumbi Saleh (Mauritanie 6e - 17e siècles)." Paris 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA010604.

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Formes et décors des récipients céramiques sont traditionnellement considérés comme des témoins privilégiés de l'identité des communautés anciennes. Il résulte généralement de ce type d'approche une continuité stylistique préconçue. Cette continuité caractérise la plupart des assemblages céramiques issus des grands centres urbains historiques ouest africains. Celle dont témoigne la céramique exhumée à Koumbi Saleh (Mauritanie, 5e/6e-I7e siècles) en est l'un des exemples les plus emblématiques. Dans le but d'interroger cette continuité, une étude technologique de cette céramique fut entreprise. Les différentes étapes de la chaîne opératoire de production céramique ont été reconstituées au travers de plusieurs analyses archéométriques. Plusieurs productions céramiques ont ainsi été reconnues. Nos résultats révèlent, par ailleurs, que ces productions, locales et importées, subissent de profondes transformations dans le courant des 11e et 15e siècles.

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Books on the topic "Ghana (Empire)"

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The empire of Ghana. New York: F. Watts, 1998.

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Discovering the Empire of Ghana. New York: Rosen Publishing, 2014.

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John, Haywood. West African kingdoms. Chicago, Ill: Raintree, 2008.

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Dieterlen, Germaine. L' Empire de Ghana: Le Wagadou et les traditions de Yéréré. Paris: Editions Karthala, 1992.

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West African kingdoms. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 2001.

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Klobuchar, Lisa. Africans of the Ghana, Mali, and Songhai empires. Chicago: World Book, 2009.

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Conrad, David C. Empires of medieval West Africa: Ghana, Mali, and Songhay. New York: Chelsea House, 2009.

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Abū Bakr Ismāʻīl Muḥammad Mīqā. La culture et l'enseignement islamiques au Soudan occidental de 400 à 1100 h sous les empires du Ghana, du Mali et du Songhay. Niamey: Nouvelle Impr. du Niger, 1997.

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Ahmadiyya in the Gold Coast: Muslim Cosmopolitans in the British Empire. Indiana University Press, 2017.

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Hanson, John H. Ahmadiyya in the Gold Coast: Muslim Cosmopolitans in the British Empire. Indiana University Press, 2017.

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Book chapters on the topic "Ghana (Empire)"

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Hove, Jon Olav. "Recreating Pre-colonial Forts and Castles: Heritage Policies and Restoration Practices in the Gold Coast/Ghana, 1945 to 1970s." In Shadows of Empire in West Africa, 327–50. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39282-0_11.

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Osei-Tutu, John Kwadwo, and Ebenezer Ayesu. "Diplomacy, Identity and Appropriation of the “Door of no Return”. President Barack Obama and Family in Ghana and the Cape Coast Castle, 2009." In Shadows of Empire in West Africa, 297–326. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39282-0_10.

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Decker, Stephanie. "Less Than an Empire and More Than British: Foreign Investor Competition in Ghana and Nigeria in the 1960s." In Imagining Britain’s Economic Future, c.1800–1975, 183–203. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71297-0_9.

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"CHAPTER EIGHT. NO EXIT: FROM BANDUNG TO GHANA." In Race against Empire, 167–84. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/9780801471711-010.

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Crinson, Mark. "Dialects of internationalism: architecture in Ghana, 1945-66." In Modern Architecture and the End of Empire, 127–56. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315198095-6.

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Klinger, William, and Denis Kuljiš. "From Desert to Wilderness." In Tito's Secret Empire, 299–304. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197572429.003.0045.

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This chapter details Marshal Tito's great African tour, accompanied by numerous state officials aboard his 4,000-ton cruiser Galeb in February 1961. It describes Tito's expedition as a political adventure that only he was capable of and where he showed ambition to become the major player in Africa to rival Western interests. It also recounts how Tito maintained equidistance between the big powers and modified the centralized economy with some limited competition between state-owned companies. The chapter recounts Tito's receipt of huge amounts of money from the West for breaking the monolith of world communism. It mentions Dr Kwame Nkrumah, a professor of philosophy who welcomed Tito in Accra, the capital of the newly independent country of Ghana.

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Lu, Jixia. "A Chinese Empire in the Making? Questioning Myths from the Agri-Food Sector in Ghana." In Disturbances in Heaven, 122–25. ANU Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/mic.02.2017.19.

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McFate, Montgomery. "Robert Sutherland Rattray and Indirect Rule." In Military Anthropology, 47–84. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190680176.003.0002.

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This chapter begins with a description of how Captain Robert Sutherland Rattray, an anthropologist working for the British colonial government in what is now known as Ghana, may have averted a war between the Ashanti Empire and the British colonial government. This chapter offers a brief discussion of the origins of European colonial expansion and the various modes of European rule. Indirect rule is described as an administrative system, which (in theory) used indigenous institutions for governance. This chapter then explores how implementation of foreign policy creates a variety of knowledge imperatives, including the need for empirical, scientific research (instead of the impressionistic research of untrained administrators) concerning African social, political, economic and legal systems and the relationships between them. Lacking the requisite information, the mutual incomprehension between British colonial officers and the African societies they encountered resulted in a variety of unanticipated cultural disjunctions. Three disjunctions of indirect rule are then discussed, including the dangers of exporting western models, the problem of self-defeating policies and third, the tyranny of the paradigm.

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Toulmin, Camilla. "History of Dlonguébougou and the wider region." In Land, Investment, and Migration, 29–49. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198852766.003.0002.

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Chapter 2 sets the village of Dlonguébougou within its wider region. Long-term shifts in rainfall have shaped the landscape and societies, from prehistory through to the emergence of the Ghana, Mali, and Songhai Empires, relying on trans-Saharan trade in gold, salt, and slaves. The Bambara kingdom of Ségou used warfare to exact tribute and control trade, but by the time of the French conquest, much of the region had been taken under the jihadist rule of El Hajj Oumar Tall. The colonial administration had profound, long-lasting impacts on village life, taxation, forced labour, military recruitment, and legal and political systems. Economic and political events since Independence in 1960 are described, including the growing conflict in the north and centre of the country, sparked by demands for Tuareg autonomy, but now spread into widespread instability.

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Auer, Blain. "Civilising the Savage: Myth, History and Persianisation in the Early Delhi Courts of South Asia." In Islamisation, 393–416. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474417129.003.0020.

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This chapter explores the success of the Persian language and Persianate courtly culture in South Asia during the important two centuries 1200–1400 in the early Delhi courts. It was at the very end of the twelfth century, in 1192, that Qutb al-Din Aybeg (r. 1206–10), a commander of the Islamic Ghurid empire that originated from northern Afghanistan, captured Delhi, an important city within the realm of the Chauhan kings. Following the death of his Ghurid sultan, Muʿizz al-Din Muhammad b. Sam (r. 1173–1206), the former realms of the Ghurid empire centred in Ghazna were divided up and Qutb al-Din Aybeg took control of Delhi and Lahore, which had served as a southern capital of the Ghaznavid kingdom at the heart of the Punjab region. His successor, Shams al-Din Iltutmish (r. 1211–36), established the Shamsi dynasty, choosing Delhi as his capital. It was the first time in history that an Islamic kingdom with an enduring presence was firmly established in northern India with access throughout the Ganga-Yamuna region, as well as to the south in the Deccan

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