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Ghiyas ud din Balban
Sultanate
9th Sultan of Delhi
Reign
18 February 1266–13 January 1287
Predecessor
Nasiruddin Mahmud
Successor
Muiz ud din Qaiqabad (grandson)
Born
1216 Delhi
Died
13 January 1287[1] (aged 71—72)
Burial
Tomb of Balban, Mehrauli Archaeological Park, Delhi
Issue
Muhammad Khan
Nasiruddin Bughra Khan
House
House of Mamluk
Religion
Sunni Islam
Ghiyas ud din Balban (Persian: غیاث الدین بلبن; 1216–1287, reigned: 1266–1287) was the ninth sultan of the Mamluk dynasty of Delhi.
Ghiyas ud Din was the regent of the last Shamsi sultan, Nasiruddin Mahmud.[2] He got rid of his predecessor Imaduddin Raihan and also got rid of this rivals in the court.[3]
His original name was Baha Ud Din. He was an Ilbari Turk. When he was young he was captured by the Mongols, taken to Ghazni and sold to Khawaja Jamal ud-din of Basra, a Sufi. The latter then brought him to Delhi in 1232 along with other slaves, and all of them were purchased by Iltutmish.[citation needed]
Balban belonged to the famous group of 40 Turkic slaves of Iltutmish.[4]
Ghiyas made several conquests, some of them as vizier. He routed the people of Mewat that harassed Delhi and reconquered Bengal, all while successfully facing the Mongol threat, during which his son died. After his death in 1287, his grandson Qaiqabad was nominated sultan, though his rule undermined the success made under his grandfather's reign.
In spite of having only a few military achievements, Balban reformed civil and military lines that earned him a stable and prosperous government granting him the position, along with Shams ud-din Iltutmish and the later Alauddin Khalji, one of the most powerful rulers of Delhi Sultanate.[citation needed]
^"Ghiyas ud din Balban".
^Chandra, Satish (1999). History of Medieval India. ORIENT BLACKSWAN. p. 80.
^Chandra, Satish (1999). History of Medieval India. ORIENT BLACKSWAN. p. 81.
^Bhat, R.A History of Medieval India pp. 66-68
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