Person · r. 1321 – 1325
Ghiyas-ud-din Tughluq
غیاث الدین تغلق
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Founder 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.
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- vol. I, p. 400 · read as page image
Then laying hold on him, the populace raised him up, and having placed him upon the throne, hailed him as Shah Jehan (the King of the Universe), but he assumed the more modest title of Gheias-ood-Deen.—The reign of Khoosrow lasted only five months.
- vol. I, p. 408 · read as page image
Hajy Mahomed Kandahary says, that it was struck by lightning, and this does not seem at all improbable. But God only knows the real truth. The death of Gheias-ood-Deen Toghluk happened in the month of Rubbee-ool-Awul, of the year 725, after a reign of four years and some months.