Person · r. 1266 – 1287
Ghiyas-ud-din Balban
A 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.
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- vol. I, p. 249 · read as page image
and on the death of his sovereign, who was also his brother-in-law, he ascended the throne not only without opposition, but even with the general consent of the nobility and people.
- vol. I, p. 246 · read as page image
In the year 663, the King fell sick, and having lingered some months of the disease, he expired on the 11th Jumad-ool-Awul, 664, after a reign of twenty years and upwards.