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Ala ud-din Sikandar Shah Tughlaq (22 January − 8 March 1394)

 Muhammad bin Firoz finally became sultan of Dehli on 31 August 1390 by defeating Abu Bakar Shah. However all through his reign he was beset with rebellions from his amirs. Gujarat declared independence. Rajput chiefs in Etawa stopped paying taxes.  The wazir, Islam Khan forced them to submission. But as soon as Islam Khan returned to Delhi, they rebelled again. The sultan marched in person, defeated them, and levelled the fort of Etawa with the ground. He then proceeded via Kanauj to Jalesar, and built a fort there, which was called after him Muhammadabad. However due to a false report that Islam Khan was planning a rebelion, the sultan came back to Dehli and put Islam Khan to death. The Sultan then went to Mewat to quell the rebellion of Bahadur Nahir who was about to attack Dehli. He was defeated and sultan retired to Muhammadabad.  The Sultan was ill at that time and asked his son Humayun to crush Shaikha, the Khokar, who had rebelled and captured Lahore. But before the Prince left
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Rukn al-Din Ibrahim (AH 695; 1296 AD)

 When Jalal-ud-din Khalji was killed by his son-in-law Ali Gurshasp, Ali was proclaimed himself Suiltan of  Delhi and took title as Alauddin Khalji. However Dehli was still in the hands of Firuz Shah’s men and Alauddin  hesitated to march on the capital during the rains against Arkali Khan who was an able general and the second son of Jalal. However the queen-mother Malikah-i-Jahan declared her youngest son, Qadr Khan, as Sultan with the title of Rukn-al-din Ibrahim, setting aside the claim of the elder son Arkali Khan who was at Multan. Consequently Arkali Khan became completely alienated from his mother, and his partisans refused to recognize her nominee. 

Alauddin Khalji then marched towards Dehli with 'with iron in one hand and gold in the other'. While going to Dehli, he distributed small gold and silver coins among the people in order to get confidence of the people. Large gifts were given to all and sundry to make them forget that Ala-ud-Din killed his own father-in-law and the king. Many of the nobility abandoned Rukn-ud-din in favour of his powerful cousin. As Alauddin  approached Delhi, the boy king came out to offer resistance; but as the entire left wing of his army deserted to the enemy, he with his mother, led by the loyal Ahmad Chap, left for Multan. '

However Alauddin Khalji sent a large army towards him in November 1296 and besieged Multan. As the fort commanders surrendered to the force, Rukn-al-din Ibrahim and his brother Arkali Khan was taken into custody. Later they were blinded, imprisoned and finally killed. Alauddin then punished all the nobles whose loyalty he purchased with bribes as he considered them too fickle. Some were put to death; some were blinded; some imprisoned for life; and the property of all was confiscated. 




This is a billion jital of Rukn al-Din Ibrahim

Obv: Al-sultan Al-Azim Rukn Al-Dunya Wa Al-Deen (The Sultan, the greatest one, the pillar/foundation of the world and of the faith)

Rev: Ibrahim Shah Bin Firoz Shah (Ibrahim Shah, son of Firoz Shah)

Wt : 3.15 gm

Ref: D212

 

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