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Historical Periods & Dynasties
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- Qutb-ud-din Aibak — Person · r. 1205 – 1210 · Mamluk / Slave DynastyA Turkic slave-general of Muhammad Ghuri who received the insignia of royalty from Ghuri's successor and founded Delhi's Mamluk (Slave) dynasty; he died in a fall from his horse during a game of chogan.
- Aram Shah — Person · r. 1210 – 1211 · Mamluk / Slave DynastySon of Qutb-ud-din Aibak who succeeded his father but was judged unfit to govern; defeated in battle before Delhi by Shams-ud-din Iltutmish after a reign of scarcely one year.
- Shams-ud-din Iltutmish — Person · r. 1211 – 1236 · Mamluk / Slave DynastySon-in-law and former slave of Qutb-ud-din Aibak, invited by discontented nobles and then took Delhi by defeating Aram Shah in battle.
- Rukn-ud-din Firuz — Person · r. 1236 · Mamluk / Slave DynastySon of Iltutmish who succeeded him without opposition at Delhi, but was deposed within seven months after his mother's cruelties provoked a confederacy of chiefs who raised his sister Razia instead.
- Razia Sultana — Person · r. 1236 – 1240 · Mamluk / Slave DynastyDaughter of Iltutmish, raised to the throne at Delhi by seven chiefs who deserted her brother Rukn-ud-din Firuz, whom she then defeated and deposed.
- Muizuddin Bahram Shah — Person · r. 1240 – 1242 · Mamluk / Slave DynastySon of Iltutmish, raised to the throne by the Toorky officers while his sister Razia was held captive at Bituhnda; besieged in Delhi and put to death after a reign of just over two years.
- Alauddin Masud Shah — Person · r. 1242 – 1246 · Mamluk / Slave DynastySon of Rukn-ud-din Firuz, raised to the throne by the nobility on the same day a rival usurper was deposed; later deposed himself and imprisoned for the rest of his life.
- Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah — Person · r. 1246 – 1266 · Mamluk / Slave DynastyYoungest son of Iltutmish, summoned from Byraich by the nobles after Alauddin Masud's deposition and seated on his father's throne; died of illness after a reign of twenty years and upwards.
- Ghiyas-ud-din Balban — Person · r. 1266 – 1287 · Mamluk / Slave DynastyA purchased Turkic slave who rose to vizier and, as Nasir-ud-din Mahmud's brother-in-law, ascended the throne on his death with the general consent of the nobility and people.
- Muizuddin Kaiqubad — Person · r. 1287 – 1290 · Mamluk / Slave DynastyGrandson of Balban, seated on the throne in his eighteenth year by the Delhi kotwal Fukhr-ud-din, overriding Balban's chosen heir; later assassinated while paralysed and sick.
- Kayumars — Person · r. 1290 – 1290 (nominal) · Mamluk / Slave DynastyInfant son of Kaiqubad, seized from the harem at three years old by a Mongol-officer faction to be set up as king; kept alive some months as a figurehead by Jalal-ud-din Khilji before being put to death, ending the Mamluk (Shamsi) line.
- Delhi Sultanate — the Mu'izzi/Shamsi Slave Kings — Dynasty · 1206 – 1290 · Mamluk / Slave DynastyBosworth's table gives Aybak's accession, in 602/1206, as 'Malik of Hindūstān in Lahore for the Ghūrids' — sovereignty from a Ghurid governorship, and from Lahore rather than Delhi; Iltutmish (607/1211) is the first of the line who is titled 'sultan in Delhi' in the same table.
- Bughra Khan — Person · named on the page as father of Muizuddin Kaiqubad · Mamluk / Slave DynastyFather named as Nasir-ood-Deen, Kurra Khan (governor of Bengal, son of Ghiyas-ud-din Balban); he was never himself a Delhi ruler in this house, so has no people/succession entry of his own.