Person · r. 1394 – 1412
Nasir-ud-din Mahmud Tughluq
ناصر الدین محمود تغلق
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A 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.
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- vol. I, p. 478 · read as page image
They at length fixed on Mahmood a youth, the son of the late King, Nasir-ood-Deen Mahomed, whom they placed on the throne. ... The apparent weakness of the government arising out of the King's minority and the dissensions of the nobles, encouraged the surrounding chiefs to revolt.
- vol. I, p. 504 · read as page image
Mahmood Toghluk, being delivered from this imminent danger, took the diversion of hunting in the neighbourhood of Kyetuhl, where he contracted a fever, and died in the month of Zeekada.