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2 Lahore viceroy.
3 Revolt of Altiinia,
4 the Tuikish chief,
5 Who marries the
6 qucen,
7 Sho is defeated,
8 And put to death,
9 1239 a.D,
10 Behram Shah,
11 brother of Razia
12 Sultam, ascends the
13 throne, 1239 a.p.
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16 Tltha bp,
17 Lahore ylundered
18 bs the Meghals,
19 The hing imyri.
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24 HISTORY OF THE PANJAB.
25 (Mir Alkhor) to that of Amfr-al-umrah, or the chief of the nobles. Such
26 was the familiarity that existed between the queen and her slave, that,
27 when she rode out, Jamdl-ud-din was in the habit of lifting her to her saddle
28 by raising her up under her arms. This behaviour excited at once the
29 disgust and envy of the nobles and Omerahs, who were much incensed,
30 alike with the favours shown, and the liberties permitted by their sovereign,
31 to an Abyssinian slave oh et ;
32 The first to give open expression to his discontent was Malik Kabir
33 Khan, the viceroy of Léhore, who threw off his allegiance and made
34 himself independent. The queen marched against him at the head of
35 an army to chastise him, and succeeded in reducing him to submission.
36 The Malik conducted himself on this occasion with such humility that
37 the empress, either believing in his sincerity, or desirous of securing
38 his co-operation, not only reinstated him in the government of Ldhore,
39 but conferred on him, in addition, the governorship of Miultdn, lately
40 vacated by Malik Karaguz. ; ; na
41 During the same year, Malik Altunia, a chief of Turkish origin. gover-
42 nor of Bhatinda, revolted. The queen gave him battle, but, the Turkish
43 chiefs in her army mutinying, she sustained a defeat, and her Abyssinian
44 favourite was killed. The queen was herself taken prisoner and brought to
45 Altinia, who kept her in confinement in the fort of Bhatinda. The Turkish
46 officers raised her brother Behram, a son of Shams-ud-din Altamash, to the
47 throne. Altunia soon after married the queen, who raised an army of
48 Ghakkar Jats and marched on Delhi, where a severe action was fought, in
49 which the queen was defeated and fled to Bhatinda. The queen, having once
50 more rallied her scattered forces, made a second effort for the crown, but she
51 was again defeated on the plains of Kythal, on the 24th October 1239,
52 and both she and her husband were taken prisoners. She was assassinated
53 a the 14th November of the same year, after reigning three years and a
54 alf,
55 MOIZ-UD-DIN BEHRAM SHAH.
56 When the empress, Razia Begam, was incarcerated in the fort of
57 Bhatinda, Moiz-ud-din Behram Shah ascended the throne, on the 21st of
58 April 1239, and Malik Karaguz was again appointed Viceroy of Ldhore.
59 The peace of the empire was disturbed by internal discords and dissen-
60 sions, while it was at the same time threatened by a formidable invasion
61 from without. The hosts of the great mercenary leader, Changez Khan,
62 having swept over the countries of Central Asia, made incursions
63 into the Panjab. They carried fire and sword wherever they went, and,
64 advancing from Ghazni, seized Léhore on the 22nd of November 1241.
65 The viceroy, finding his troops mutinous, was compelled to fly in the dark-
66 ness of night. The Moghals gave up the city to indiscriminate plunder,
67 and thousands of the inhabitants were carried away prisoners. The king,
68 on hearing of this disaster, sent the Wazir Ikhtiar-ud-din at the head of
69 some troops, to drive the invaders out; but the danger had already passed
70 away, and the invaders had retired from the country, after completing
71 their work of devastation. Meanwhile, the wazir mutinied, and, a plot having
72 been formed against the king, he was deposed, taken prisoner, and put
73 to death in 1241, after a reign of little more than two years,
74 ALA-UD-DIN MASUD.
75 Moiz-nd-din Behram Shah was succeeded on the th i
76 = : rone by Ala-ud-din
77 Tasid, son of Rukn-ud-din Feroz, During his reign the Panjab was
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