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Jalal ud din Firuz Khilji

 * As per OTL
 * Ali Gurshasp raids in 1296
 * Assasinated in 1296.

Alauddin Khilji

 * Less of a tyrant
 * Administration:
 * Inititate the reforms as per OTL. Raise the tax on war booty.
 * Initiate adminsitrative reforms too. Have a larger number of Indian Muslims and Hindus in the nobility to prevent the Turkic nobles from gaining too much power.
 * Stabilize the Sultanate as a proper state.
 * Mongols:
 * Keep fending off the Chagatai Mongol invasions, kick them out of the subcontinent.
 * Establish a system of fortresses and watchtowers along the northern frontiers to fend off the Chagatai Mongol invasions.
 * Capture the Mongols. Convert them to Sufism. Setup Janissary-like regiments.
 * Your armies are of Turkic origin. You have the same set of tactics as the Mongols.
 * Incorporate Indian style regiments as well. Use Non Muslims and Indian Muslims to comprise at least 25% of your army.
 * Increase the number of war elephants to 3000.
 * The bulk of Delhi Sultanate's army consisted of nomadic Turkic Mamluk military slaves, who were skilled in nomadic cavalry warfare. The Delhi Sultanate's Mamluk army were skilled in the same style of nomadic cavalry warfare used by the Mongols, making them successful in repelling the Mongol invasions, as was the case for the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt. The strength of the armies changes according to time. According to firishta during the battle of kili Alauddin led an army of 300,000 cavalry and 2,700 elephants. The soldiers used weapons such as swords, spears, shields etc. Armour such as steel helmet and chainmail was commonly used. Armored war elephants were effectively used against the enemies such as the Mongols.
 * Academia:
 * Setup the House of Wisdom in Delhi. Invite scholars from all across India, China, Southeast Asia and Arabia. Save the Arabic scholars from the Mongolian hordes of West Asia. Have all the works translated into Hindavi. Amir Khusro will lead the House of Wisdom.
 * Become the center of Islamic sciences, establish madrassas. Further develop the science and technology, including the development of irrigation and navigation technologies. Allow the Hindus to have their Gurukuls.
 * The Hindustani language (Hindi-Urdu) began to emerge in the Delhi Sultanate period, developed from the Middle Indo-Aryan apabhramsha vernaculars of North India. Amir Khusro, who lived in the 13th century CE during the Delhi Sultanate period in North India, used a form of Hindustani, which was the lingua franca of the period, in his writings and referred to it as Hindavi.
 * Culture:
 * establish Hindavi (Hindustani) as the official language.