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Alauddin's march to Delhi was interrupted by the flooding of the Yamuna river. Meanwhile, in Delhi, Jalaluddin's widow Malka-i-Jahan appointed her youngest son Qadr Khan as the new king with the title Ruknuddin Ibrahim, without consulting the nobles. This irked Arkali Khan, her elder son and the governor of Multan.
The Khalji or Khilji dynasty [b] was a Turco-Afghan dynasty that ruled the Delhi Sultanate for three decades between 1290 and 1320. It was the second dynasty to rule the Delhi Sultanate which covered large swaths of the Indian subcontinent .
Muhammad Maulana, a maternal uncle of Mubarak Shah, was given the title Sher Khan. [11] Maulana Ziauddin, the son of the Sultan's calligraphy teacher Maulana Bahauddin, was given the title Qazi Khan and the office of sadr-i jahan. [11] A gold dagger studded with jewels was also presented to him. [12] Malik Qara Beg, one of Alauddin's senior ...
The Khalji dynasty was of Turko-Afghan [7] [8] [9] origin whose ancestors, the Khalaj, are said to have been initially a Turkic people or a Turkified people [10] of possibly of Indo-Iranian origin [11] who migrated together with their ancestors the Hunas and Hephthalites from Central Asia, [12] into the southern and eastern regions of modern-day Afghanistan as early as 660 CE, where they ruled ...
Jaora State (1808–1948), founded by Abdul Ghafur Muhammad Khan, a Pashtun cavalry officer and a Rohilla serving Muhammad Amir Khan, the Pashtun founder of the princely state of Tonk. Abdul Ghafur Muhammad Khan also served the Holkar ruler, annexing Rajput territories in northern Malwa. For his services, he was designated the title of a nawab.
The attackers killed a son of Alauddin's sister, mistaking him for Ulugh Khan. Ulugh Khan escaped to Nusrat Khan's tent, where drums were beaten to assemble the loyal soldiers. These loyal soldiers forced the rebels to retreat. [20] The rebellion was completely suppressed within 4 days.
The Khalji or Khilji [b] dynasty ruled the Delhi sultanate, covering large parts of the Indian subcontinent for nearly three decades between 1290 and 1320. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Founded by Jalal ud din Firuz Khalji as the second dynasty to rule the Delhi Sultanate of India , and successfully fending off the repeated Mongol invasions of India .
Isami states that she was the mother of Alauddin's son and successor Shihab-ud-din Omar. [18] The 16th century historian Firishta claims that after Alauddin's death, his viceroy Malik Kafur married Ramachandra's daughter. Chhitai Varta (c. 1440), a Hindi poem by Narayan-das, narrates her legend. [15] Ramachandra stayed at Delhi for six months. [9]