Sultan of the Malwa Sultanate was the principal title of the ruler of the

Malwa Sultanate The Malwa Sultanate ( fa, ) (Pashto: ; ''lit: Mālwā Salṭanat'') was a late medieval Islamic sultanate in the Malwa region, covering the present day Indian states of Madhya Pradesh and south-eastern Rajasthan from 1392 to 1562. It was ...

(1401–1561/2) in the

Indian subcontinent The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia. It is situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas. Geopolitically, it includes the countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India ...

. The Sultanate was founded by

Dilawar Khan Dilawar Khan was an Afghan governor of the Malwa province of central India and laterly Sultan of the Malwa Sultanate during the decline of the Delhi Sultanate. After serving at the court in Delhi, he was appointed governor at Dhar in A.H. 7 ...

, an

Afghan Afghan may refer to: *Something of or related to Afghanistan, a country in Southern-Central Asia *Afghans, people or citizens of Afghanistan, typically of any ethnicity ** Afghan (ethnonym), the historic term applied strictly to people of the Pa ...

or a Turko-Afghan governor of the Delhi Sultanate. In 1437, the Ghurid dynasty of Dilawar Khan was replaced by Turkic Khilji dynasty.

Sultan of the Malwa Sultanate

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{{Wikiquote, Malwa Sultanate
Coins of the Malwa Sultanate

Sultans of Malwa
History of Malwa Islamic rule in the Indian subcontinent History of Ujjain