Ala-ud-Din Khilji inherited an economically down trodden empire surrounded by the upheavals of Hindu and Rajputs of India while the Mongols were posing a consistent threat to his rule. It required the restructuring of the economy to uplift the conditions of the people and the state. Therefore, Sultan enacted economic reforms and a precise system of revenue all over the ...Read More »
Sultan Ala-ud-Din Khilji died of Oedema in 1316 AD (according to some historians, he was poisoned by Malik Kafoor) leaving an empire which was safe and sound from the external perils and internal conflicts because of his stern and relentless policies. Being found of Alexander the Great ll, he overwhelmed the north and south of the India and executed the ...Read More »
Reportedly, a son of the slave of Ghias-ud-Din Balban, Ghazi Malik (Sultan Ghias-ud-Din Tughlaq) came to power after eliminating the Khilji Dynasty by killing Khusrau Shah, the last weak ruler of Khiljis who hastened a plain sailing for Tughlaq. His father had married a woman of Jat clan and Ghias-ud-Din was born. According to Ibn Batoota, the word Tughlaq came ...Read More »
Raja Dahar is the person standing on the verge of civilizations in the history of Indo-Pakistan. It was he who brought about a change of not only rule, but a monarch too. Being the despotic King of Sindh, he canopied the pirates of Sindh while being vindictive towards his subjects. Shooders/ Antyajas, (the lowest considered strata of Hindus) and the ...Read More »
The Ghaznavid Dynasty which lasted for 175 years on Indo-Pakistan, left irremovable imprints on the history as it provided a milestone of a separate Muslim state in the years to come. Eleventh century saw the prime of the Muslim rule when Mahmud Ghaznavi dominated over northern areas of Pakistan defeating Jai Pal and Anand Pal, his son. Multan and Sindh, ...Read More »
Ghaznavids fostered a host of personalities from diverse domains who won everlasting fame for themselves and the Ghaznavids. Among such icons, people from art and literature, history, and mysticism are remarkable. The sun of Islam rose in the area due to the religious scholars and saints who came to India from Ghazna and other regions of the world. It would ...Read More »
Moiz-ud-Din Mohammad bin Sam (Shahab-ud-Din Ghauri) is rightly called the true founder of the Muslim empire in India as it was he who compressed the political muscle of the Rajputs and laid the foundations of a strong Muslim India. Ghaur is the name of a Turk tribe in the White Mountain Range in the north and east of Ghazna. In ...Read More »
Mehmud Ghaznavi, the founder of Ghaznavid rule in India nurtured a bunch of writers, poets, and chroniclers around him which showed his keen interest into knowledge and wisdom. They were not only the “Qasida go” (praising the king), but they also excelled in Hadith, Islamic Jurisprudence, history, mathematics, geography, physics, and chemistry. The boundaries of the fame of his scholars ...Read More »
Mohammad of Ghaur died in 1206 AD leaving no heir but he was succeeded by a horde of capable generals who carried the heavy responsibilities of the empire left by him. These generals included Taj-ud-Din Yalduz, Mohammad bin Bakhtiyar Khilji, Nasir-ud-Din Qabacha, and Qutb-ud-Din Aibak who took the hold of the empires of Ghazni, Bengal, Multan, and Delhi respectively. Qutb-ud-Din ...Read More »
Shams-ud-Din Iltutmish (or Atamish, the son of Neem Khan from Ilbri clan of Turkistan) came as the third king of the Ilbri Turks who succeeded after the death of Qutab-ud-Din Aibak. Being the son-in-law and trust worthy general of Aibak, he was selected as the sultan of India though the elites of the court put the crown on the head ...Read More »
