Person · r. 1296 – 1316
Alauddin Khalji
علاء الدین خلجی
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Seized the throne in 1296 after his men murdered his uncle Jalaluddin at Kurra and a boy-king briefly installed by the dowager queen fled to Multan; died in 1316 amid suspicion of poisoning by his regent Malik Kafur.
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- vol. I, p. 318 · read as page image
another of the guards, Yekhtyar-ood-Deen, coming up, seized the feeble old man, and throwing him on the ground, cut off his head.
- vol. I, p. 324 · read as page image
made a pompous and triumphant entry into Dehly, in the latter end of the year 696, and ascended the throne, in the ruby palace.
- vol. I, p. 381 · read as page image
on the evening of the 6th of Shuval, in the year 716, he gave up the ghost, but not without suspicion of being poisoned by the villain whom he had raised from the dust