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Deval Devi (variantly known as Dewal Devi, Dewal Rani, Deval Rani and Dewal Di) was the daughter of Karan Deva II (the last sovereign of the Vaghela dynasty of Gujarat).She was married to Khizr Khan, the eldest son of Alauddin Khalji, in 1308.
In 1304, Alauddin annexed Gujatat to the Delhi Sultanate, forcing the Vaghela king Karna to flee to the Yadava kingdom, where Ramachandra gave Karna the principality of Baglana. According to the 16th century historian Firishta, Kamaladevi requested Alauddin to bring her daughter Devaladevi to Delhi. [4]
Kafur was supported by Alauddin's Gujarat governor Alp Khan, whose forces invaded Baglana, and captured Karna's daughter Devaladevi (later married to Alauddin's son Khizr Khan). [63] At Devagiri, Kafur achieved an easy victory, and Ramachandra agreed to become a lifelong vassal of Alauddin. [64]
In 1299, the Delhi Sultan Alauddin Khalji sent an army to ransack Gujarat. According to multiple medieval chronicles, Karna had abducted the wife of his minister Madhava and killed Madhava's brother. In revenge, Madhava instigated Alauddin to invade Gujarat. [70] [71] In 1304, Karna lost his throne permanently after a second invasion from Delhi.
Alauddin Khalji taxation methods and increased taxes reduced agriculture output and the Sultanate witnessed massive inflation. In order to compensate for salaries that he had cut and fixed for Muslim officials and soldiers, Alauddin introduced price controls on all agriculture produce, goods, livestocks and slaves in the kingdom, as well as ...
Madhav's brother dies trying to protect Roopsundari. Madhav then decides to take revenge, and persuades Alauddin Khalji to invade Gujarat. In the following war, Karan loses his kingdom and his wife Kaularani to Alauddin. Some years later, he also loses his daughter Devaldevi, thus gaining the epithet ghelo ("foolish"). [31]
Alauddin married Ramachandra's daughter Jhatyapali, who became the mother of his son and successor Shihabuddin Omar and Qutbuddin Mubarak Shah. [15] Historian Kishori Saran Lal believes that Ramachandra gave his daughter to Alauddin after the 1296 raid, [16] but historian Satish Chandra states that this probably happened after the second ...
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 .