The Lodi Dynasty (1451–1526 AD)
Bahlol Lodi (1451–1489)
- Invited by the retiring Alam Shah's minister, he took charge of the army and officially founded the Afghan Lodi dynasty.
- He successfully retained the loyalty of the powerful Afghan nobles by treating them as equal partners rather than acting as a despotic king.
Sikandar Lodi (1489–1517)
- He ascended the throne peacefully with the help of the nobles following the death of his father, Bahlol Lodi.
- He founded the city of Agra and officially shifted the Sultanate's capital there from Delhi.
- He introduced the Gaz-i-Sikandari, a 32-digit yard used for accurately measuring cultivated agricultural fields.
- He was a religiously intolerant ruler who broke sacred images and ordered the destruction of Hindu temples in Mathura.
Ibrahim Lodi (1517–1526)
- He became Sultan with the support of the nobles after the death of his father, Sikandar Lodi.
- He tried to assert absolute dictatorial power, which deeply alienated the fiercely independent Afghan nobility.
- His displeased governor of Punjab, Daulat Khan Lodi, invited Babur to invade India; Babur defeated and killed Ibrahim Lodi at the First Battle of Panipat in 1526, permanently ending the Delhi Sultanate.