Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "سلطنت دہلی" in Urdu language version.
...helps identify another curious flag found in northern India – a brown or originally silver flag with a vertical black line – as the flag of the Delhi Sultanate (602–962/1206–1555).
Large banners were carried with the army. In the beginning, the sultans had only two colours : on the right were black flags, of Abbasid colour; and on the left, they carried their colour, red, which was derived from Ghor. Qutb-ud-din Aibak's standards bore the figures of the new moon, a dragon or a lion; Firuz Shah's flags also displayed a dragon.Sadan Jha (8 Jan 2016). Reverence, Resistance and Politics of Seeing the Indian National Flag (بزبان انگریزی). Cambridge University Press. p. 36. ISBN:978-1-107-11887-4., also "On the right of the Sultan was carried the black standard of the Abbasids and on the left the red standard of Ghor." in Uma Prasad Thapliyal (1938). The Dhvaja, Standards and Flags of India: A Study (بزبان انگریزی). B.R. Publishing Corporation. p. 94. ISBN:978-81-7018-092-0.
Large banners were carried with the army. In the beginning, the sultans had only two colours : on the right were black flags, of Abbasid colour; and on the left, they carried their colour, red, which was derived from Ghor. Qutb-ud-din Aibak's standards bore the figures of the new moon, a dragon or a lion; Firuz Shah's flags also displayed a dragon.Sadan Jha (8 Jan 2016). Reverence, Resistance and Politics of Seeing the Indian National Flag (بزبان انگریزی). Cambridge University Press. p. 36. ISBN:978-1-107-11887-4., also "On the right of the Sultan was carried the black standard of the Abbasids and on the left the red standard of Ghor." in Uma Prasad Thapliyal (1938). The Dhvaja, Standards and Flags of India: A Study (بزبان انگریزی). B.R. Publishing Corporation. p. 94. ISBN:978-81-7018-092-0.
Hindavi was recognized as a semi-official language by the Sor Sultans (1540–1555) and their chancellery rescripts bore transcriptions in the Devanagari script of the Persian contents. The practice is said to have been introduced by the Lodis (1451–1526).
...helps identify another curious flag found in northern India – a brown or originally silver flag with a vertical black line – as the flag of the Delhi Sultanate (602–962/1206–1555).
Hindavi was recognized as a semi-official language by the Sor Sultans (1540–1555) and their chancellery rescripts bore transcriptions in the Devanagari script of the Persian contents. The practice is said to have been introduced by the Lodis (1451–1526).
...helps identify another curious flag found in northern India – a brown or originally silver flag with a vertical black line – as the flag of the Delhi Sultanate (602–962/1206–1555).
