Person

Sikander Lodi

Sultan of Delhi

b. 1455 CE – d. 1517 CE World The Great Crossroads

Sikander Lodi (died November 21, 1517), born Nizam Khan, is the Sultan of Delhi between 1489 to 1517.

He becomes the next ruler of the Lodi dynasty after the death of his father Bahlul Lodi in July 1489.

The second and most successful ruler of the Lodi dynasty of the Delhi sultanate, he is also a poet of the Persian language and prepares a diwan of nine thousand verses.