North Indian kingdoms

Target entity: North Indian kingdoms
Context triple: [Mongol invasions of India, conflictWith, North Indian kingdoms]

• A. Deccan sultanates
  The Deccan sultanates were a group of late medieval Islamic kingdoms in south-central India that emerged from the breakup of the Bahmani Sultanate and played a major role in the region’s political and cultural history.
• B. Malwa Sultanate
  The Malwa Sultanate was a medieval Islamic kingdom in central India, centered on the Malwa region, that played a significant role in regional politics and culture between the 14th and 16th centuries.
• C. Indian princely states
  The Indian princely states were semi-autonomous, monarch-ruled territories in the Indian subcontinent that were nominally sovereign but operated under the suzerainty of the British Crown until their integration into independent India and Pakistan.
• D. Indo-Scythian Kingdoms
  The Indo-Scythian Kingdoms were ancient Central Asian nomadic-ruled states that controlled parts of northwestern and western South Asia before being succeeded by the Kushan Empire.
• E. Shan States
  The Shan States were a collection of semi-autonomous, traditionally ruled principalities in what is now eastern Myanmar, historically inhabited by the Shan people and later organized as a distinct administrative region under British colonial rule.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: North Indian kingdoms
Target entity description: The North Indian kingdoms were a collection of medieval regional dynasties and states in northern India that frequently faced foreign invasions and internal rivalries while shaping the political and cultural landscape of the subcontinent.

• A. Deccan sultanates
  The Deccan sultanates were a group of late medieval Islamic kingdoms in south-central India that emerged from the breakup of the Bahmani Sultanate and played a major role in the region’s political and cultural history.
• B. Malwa Sultanate
  The Malwa Sultanate was a medieval Islamic kingdom in central India, centered on the Malwa region, that played a significant role in regional politics and culture between the 14th and 16th centuries.
• C. Indian princely states
  The Indian princely states were semi-autonomous, monarch-ruled territories in the Indian subcontinent that were nominally sovereign but operated under the suzerainty of the British Crown until their integration into independent India and Pakistan.
• D. Indo-Scythian Kingdoms
  The Indo-Scythian Kingdoms were ancient Central Asian nomadic-ruled states that controlled parts of northwestern and western South Asia before being succeeded by the Kushan Empire.
• E. Shan States
  The Shan States were a collection of semi-autonomous, traditionally ruled principalities in what is now eastern Myanmar, historically inhabited by the Shan people and later organized as a distinct administrative region under British colonial rule.
• F. None of above. chosen