Dawlat Khān Lodī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Lefèvre, Corinne
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Dawlat Khān Lodī (b. 958/1551, d. c. 1009-10/1600-2) belonged to the Shāhū Khayl clan of the Lodī tribe and dynasty who hailed from the mountainous region of Roh, south of Peshawar. His ancestors migrated to India during the time of Sulṭān Sikandar Lodī (r. 894-923/1489-1517) and entered the service of two Afghan dynasties who dominated successively the northern parts of the subcontinent, from the mid-ninth/fifteenth century to the mid-tenth/sixteenth century-the Lodīs from 855/1451 to 932/1526 and