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2 < THE SLAVE DYNASTY.
3 CHAPTER IV.
4 THE TARTAR, OR SLAVE DYNASTY,
5 KUTB-UD-DIN EBAK.
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7 the death of Muhammad Ghori, his nephew, Mahm%d, assumed the
8 royal title at Ghor. LDesirous of securing his friendship, and being in no
9 position to oppose him successfully if he should refuse to acknowledge his
10 sovereignty, the new king, immediately after his accession, sent all the
11 insignia of royalty, a canopy, standards and drums, a throne and a warrant
12 of investiture as king, to Kutb-ud-din Ebak, his uncle, viceroy of Northern
13 India. Kutb-ud-din, who received these marks of royal favour with profound
14 respect, was crowned as the first Mahomedan king at Lahore, on July
15 1205 A.D.
16 24th,
17 In his childhood, Kutb-ud-din had been brought from Turkistan to Nesha-
18 pore by a merchant, who sold him to Kdzi Fukhr-ud-din, son of Abdiél Aziz
19 Kufi.
20 The Kazi, finding that the lad was intelligent and endowed with
21 genius, sent him to school, where he made considerable progress in know-
22 ledge and science.
23 On the death of his patron, he was sold as part of his
24 estate to a merchant, and by him presented for sale to Muhammad Ghori,
25 who, having purchased him, gave him the nickname bak, trom his little
26 finger being broken. Ebak conducted himself so well that he was shortly
27 afterwards appointed master of the horse, and then to the command of an
28 army. His natural talents now finding full scope for action, he soon gained
29 the reputation of being a brave soldier, a consummate general, and a prudent
30 administrator.
31 Taj-ud-din Yelduz, governor of Kirman and Shirwan, whose daughter
32 Kutb-ud-din had married, now marched to Léhore at the head of an army,
33 and, aided by the treachery of the governor, whom he afterwards expelled,
34 took possession of the city.
35 Kutb-ud-din, on hearing of this event, ad-
36 vanced from Delhi to recover Lahore, at which place a battle was fought
37 in the latter end of 1205, when Taj-ud-din Yelduz was defeated, expel-
38 led the city and compelled to retrace his steps to Kirman.
39 pursued Yelduz to Ghazni, where he was crowned king, but, being unable
40 to hold the city, he returned almost immediately to India,
41 the rest of his life in consolidating his dominions and regulating the
42 , finances of the empire.
43 match at chowgan, a sort of racing game.
44 Kutb-ud-din
45 Here he spent
46 He died in 1210 from a fall from his horse ina
47 He had reigned five years and
48 exercised sovereign powers for upwards of twenty years under the title of
49 commander-in-chief and viceroy to his patron, Muhammad Ghori.
50 He was
51 a man of great genius and bravery, and raised himself from the position
52 of a slave to that of one of the most powerful kings that ever controlled
53 the destinies of an empire.
54 generous liberality became proverbial.
55 He was loved for bis social virtues, while his
56 The celebrated Kutab Minar at
57 Delhi, with a splendid mosque, commenced by Kutb-ud-din and completed by
58 his successor Shams-ud-din Altmash, still towers high in its proud majesty to
59 commemorate the conquest of Delhi by the first Mohamedan general who
60 ruled the ancient capital of India.
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62 Kutb-ud-din Ehak
63 crowned as the first
64 Mahomedan king of
65 Lahore, 1205 a. D,
66 The ancestry of
67 Kutb-ud-din,
68 Lahore is invested
69 by Yelduz, governor
70 of Karman,
71 But is retaken by
72 Kutb-ud-din after a
73 fight.
74 Death of Kutb-ud-
75 din, 1210 a. D,
76 His character,
77 He builds the cele-"
78 brated Kutab Minar
79 at Delhi.
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