________ organised his trusted nobles into a group of forty known as Turkan-i-Chahalgani.

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Answer 1

The correct answer is Iltutmish.

Key Points

Iltutmish organized his trusted nobles into a group of forty known as Turkan-i-Chahalgani.
- Turkan-i-Chahalgani. was a council of 40 Turkic and non-Turkish slaves who administered the Delhi Sultanate according to the wishes of Iltutmish.
- It was the first regular ministerial body in the history of the Indian subcontinent.
- The council was established to assist the emperor in the exercise of his administrative and political authority.

Additional Information

Iltutmish was regarded by several historians as the real founder and consolidator of the Slave Dynasty and the Delhi Sultanate.
- He was the third of the Mamluk kings who ruled the erstwhile Ghurid territories in North India.
- In the late 1190s, Ghurid slave-commander Qutb al-Din Aibak bought it in Delhi.
- He presented a silver tanka and a copper jital.
- He established the iqtadari system: the division of the empire into iqtas, which were assigned to nobles and officials in exchange for salary.