How did Delhi sultanate maintain its large cavalry?

According to Firishta, Allaudin Khilji maintained a standing cavalry of 475,000 horsemen.
Even though modern historians believe the figure is exaggerated it gives us an idea in to the approximate cavalry size of Allaudin Khilji.

This large cavalry is also corroborated by Allaudin's repeated victories against Mongol invaders (source for victories: Banarsi Prasad Saksena, 1992)

Follow-up Questions:

  1. What would be an approximate educated guess for the cavalry size of Delhi sultanate in different time periods.
  2. What would be the approximate cavalry percentage of total army (both standing and levy).
  3. How did Delhi sultanate's cavalry and cavalry percentage compare to other indian kingdoms like Mughals, Pratiharas, Guptas, Mauryas etc.
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u/chauvinistically — 3 days ago

How did Tamil find out the movie is about Murugan? it could be about Kartikeya?

I can't understand the drama, Tamil people always claim Murugan and Kartikeya/Skanda are separate and as far as i know the poster is mentioning a myth pertaining to Kartikeya.

If anything Tamil nationalists should not be angry at this movie.

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u/chauvinistically — 4 days ago

Corded ware, haplogroups and Indo-european farmers questions.

How did r1a become the most common haplogroup in corded ware, was it just founder effect?

Did this founder effect again make its descendant bell beaker and other cultures majority r1b?

Where did Indo-european languages stop being spread by pastoralists but by Indo-european farmers?

We find evidence of farming in bell beaker culture so were the indo-Europeans who migrated to Britain mostly sedentary?

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u/chauvinistically — 7 days ago