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- Ghiyas-ud-din Tughluq — Person · r. 1321 – 1325 · Tughlaq DynastyFounder of the Tughluq dynasty at Delhi, who defeated and killed the usurper Khusrau Khan and was raised to the throne by the populace and nobles of the city; died when a temporary pavilion collapsed on him, an event Ferishta himself leaves unresolved between accident and design.
- Muhammad bin Tughluq — Person · r. 1325 – 1351 · Tughlaq DynastyEldest son and heir-apparent of Ghiyas-ud-din Tughluq, he ascended the throne three days after his father's funeral and reigned 27 years until his death of a fever brought on, Ferishta says, by a surfeit of fish.
- Firuz Shah Tughluq — Person · r. 1351 – 1388 · Tughlaq DynastyA cousin of Muhammad bin Tughluq (son of Salar Rajub and a sister of Ghiyas-ud-din Tughluq) whom the dying king recommended as his successor, and whom the army then proclaimed king in camp; abdicated in old age in favour of his grandson and died soon after at 90.
- Tughluq Shah II — Person · r. 1388 – 1389 · Tughlaq DynastyGrandson of Firuz Shah Tughluq through his eldest son Futteh Khan, placed on the throne by the household troops at the ageing Firuz Shah's own instance; assassinated by conspirators under Mullik Rookn-ood-Deen after a reign of five months.
- Abu Bakr Shah Tughluq — Person · r. 1389 – 1390 · Tughlaq DynastyGrandson of Firuz Shah Tughluq through his son Zuffur Khan, raised to the throne by the conspirators who had just killed Tughluq Shah II; driven out after a contested year-long struggle by his rival Nasir-ud-din Muhammad and sent prisoner to Meerut, where he died some years later.
- Nasir-ud-din Muhammad Tughluq II — Person · r. 1390 – 1394 · Tughlaq DynastySon of Firuz Shah Tughluq, who first took the throne in his father's lifetime, was expelled twice by his rival Abu Bakr, and only secured Delhi for good on a third attempt in 1390; died of a relapsed fever after roughly six and a half years.
- Sikandar Shah Tughluq — Person · r. 1394 (45 days) · Tughlaq DynastySon of Nasir-ud-din Muhammad Tughluq II, born Humayun, who took the name Sikundur on succeeding his father but was cut off by sudden illness after only 45 days on the throne; Briggs gives no 'Alauddin' title for him.
- Nasir-ud-din Mahmud Tughluq — Person · r. 1394 – 1412 · Tughlaq DynastyA youth, son of Nasir-ud-din Muhammad Tughluq II, whom the nobles placed on the throne after his brother Sikandar's sudden death; his 20-year reign saw civil war with the rival Nusrat Shah, the loss of the provinces, and Timur's invasion, and ended when he died of a fever while hunting.
- Nusrat Shah Tughluq — Person · r. 1394 – c.1398 (rival claimant) · Tughlaq DynastySon of Futteh Khan and grandson of Firuz Shah Tughluq, set up by the minister Sadut Khan as a rival king to his cousin Mahmud Tughluq in the same capital; briefly held Delhi again after Timur's sack in 1398 before retiring to Meerut when pressed by Mulloo Yekbal Khan.
- Daulat Khan Lodi — Person · r. 1412 – 1414 (nominal) · Tughlaq DynastyAn Afghan noble and former private secretary elevated by Mahmud Tughluq, elected by the nobles in his stead; besieged three times by Khizr Khan and forced to surrender in 1414, then confined at Hissar Feroza, where he died — the last ruler before the Sayyid dynasty.
- Delhi Sultanate — the Tughluqids — Dynasty · 1320 – 1414 · Tughlaq DynastyFrom Tughluq Shah I's accession, 720/1320, to the Sayyid succession.
- Sipahsalar Rajab — Person · named on the page as father of Firuz Shah Tughluq · Tughlaq DynastyFiruz's mother was Ghiyas-ud-din I's sister (making Firuz his nephew, per p.444: 'his cousin Feroze, nephew of Gheias-ood-Deen Toghluk'); the plate facing p.401 names his father as Salar Rajub ('Feroze Bin Salar Rajub').
- Fath Khan — Person · named on the page as child of Firuz Shah Tughluq · Tughlaq DynastyFutteh Khan (never reigned) is Firuz Shah's eldest son; father of rulers Tughluq Shah II and Nusrat Shah.
- Zafar Khan — Person · named on the page as child of Firuz Shah Tughluq · Tughlaq DynastyZuffur Khan (never reigned), third son of Firuz Shah; father of Abu Bakr.