Shihabuddin Umar

Shihabuddin Umar

KHALJI DYNASTY

Sultan of Delhi

Reign – A.D. 1316

Father - Alauddin Khalji

During the last days of Alauddin Khalji, the rise of Naib Malik Kafur was very rapid. He was the victor of the South and a confident of the Sultan during his last days, but he cheated his master, he blinded and imprisoned the members of the royal family. Owing to his influence and mental weakness of Alauddin Khalji, which was the result of physical unfitness, Malik Kafur got a will prepared from his in which the Sultan nominated his infant son Shihabuddin Umar, his successor, and rejected the claim of Khizr Khan, his eldest son.

Thus after the death of Alauddin Khalji his infant son Shihabuddin succeeded the throne with the support and cooperation of Malik Kafur. As the sultan was a child, Malik Kafur became his regent and he concentrated all administrative powers in his hands. Shihabuddin was a puppet Sultan, the real powers of the Sultanate were in the hands of Malik Kafur. He also blinded Shadi Khan, the second son of the Sultan and put him in the fort of Siri. Prince Mubarak and Malika-i-Jahan too were imprisoned. He also suspended several faithful officials of Alauddin Khalji. He wanted to fill the vacant posts with his own men. His tyrannical and unbecoming conduct annoyed the Alai nobles. He dispatched some slaves to blind Prince Mubarak, but the Prince won their sympathy by a compassionate appeal and asked them to kill Malik Kafur for which they would be richly rewarded. The murderers immediately went back and killed Malik Kafur in his bedroom. Thus after thirty-five days of the death of Sultan Alauddin Khalji, his Naib Malik Kafur, victor of the south, was assassinated.

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