Foreign Invasion of Medieval India - Part 11

 

Continued From: The Forgotten Empires Of India: Foreign Invasion of Medieval India - Part 10

After the raid on Gujarat, the army returned to Delhi. Enroute to Delhi, Nusrat Khan and Ulugh Khan camped at a place to examine the loot. They scrutinized the spoils in the possession of the soldiers. They inflicted various punishments and penalties on the soldires forcing them to part with everything in their possession. Unable to endure the punishments, the soldiers revolted. They killed the brother of Nusrat Khan. Allaudin quickly sent relief and quelled the revolt. As soon as the troops reached Delhi, the women and children of the mutineers were seized by the government. The women were dishonoured on the streets of Delhi and they were forced to witness their children being cut into pieces! For weeks the streets of Delhi was drowned by the cry of these innocent women and children!

 By this time Allaudin had come to suspect even his brothers Ulugh Khan and Zafar Khan. A conspirator can never live in peace because he is constantly worried about a plot being woven around him. Allaudin  heaved a sigh of relief when his brother Zafar Khan fell fighting the Mughals.  According to both Barani and Firishta, Allaudin terrorized the Mughals and captured their women and children to be sold as slaves in the market. With one brother down, Allaudin kept a close watch on his other brother. Later, when Ulugh Khan’s son made an attempt on Allaudin’s life, the Sultan used it as an excuse to murder his brother Ulugh Khan as well. With the murder of his brother, Allaudin kicked the ladder he had used to ascend the throne of Delhi!     

                                                                                                               

The nobles were unaware that the gifts bestowed on them by Allaudin to cover up the murder of Jalal-ud-din was only temporary.They did not realise that by accepting bribes from Allaudin the nobles had signed their own death warrants. In the second year of the reign, Allaudin demanded the amount he had given to the nobility and the common people.  He made many changes to the offices held by the nobles in his assembly. He murdered all those nobles of Jalal-ud-din who had accepted bribes from Allaudin during his ascension.

Continued On: The Forgotten Empires Of India: Foreign Invasion of Medieval India - Part 12