Alaud-Din Khalji, called Alauddin Khilji or Alauddin Ghilji, born Ali Gurshasp, was an emperor of the Khalji dynasty that ruled the Delhi Sultanate in the Indian subcontinent.
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34 Facts About Allauddin Khilji
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Allauddin Khilji successfully fended off several Mongol invasions of India.
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Allauddin Khilji was the eldest son of Shihabuddin Mas'ud, who was the elder brother of the Khalji dynasty's founder Sultan Jalaluddin.
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Allauddin Khilji had three brothers: Almas Beg, Qutlugh Tigin and Muhammad.
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Allauddin Khilji closely monitored Alauddin, and encouraged her daughter's arrogant behavior towards him.
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Delhi Sultanate Khalji dynasty Ali India Muhammad Islamic Malik Kafur Alp Khan Hindu Qutb Minar Ismaili South India Deccan6.
Allauddin Khilji left Devagiri with a huge amount of wealth, including precious metals, jewels, silk products, elephants, horses, and slaves.
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Allauddin Khilji requested a letter of pardon signed by the Sultan, which the Sultan immediately despatched through messengers.
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Allauddin Khilji convinced Jalaluddin to visit Kara and meet Alauddin, saying that Alauddin would commit suicide out of guilt if the Sultan didn't pardon him personally.
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Allauddin Khilji promoted the existing Amirs to the rank of Maliks, and appointed his close friends as the new Amirs.
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Allauddin Khilji's objective was to cause a change in the general political opinion, by portraying himself as someone with huge public support.
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Allauddin Khilji increased the strength of the Sultanate's army, and gifted every soldier the salary of a year and a half in cash.
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Allauddin Khilji strengthened the forts and the military presence along the Mongol routes to India.
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Allauddin Khilji implemented a series of economic reforms to ensure sufficient revenue inflows for maintaining a strong army.
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Allauddin Khilji viewed their haughtiness and their direct and indirect resistance as the main difficulty affecting his reign.
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Allauddin Khilji took away all landed properties of his courtiers and nobles and cancelled revenue assignments which were henceforth controlled by the central authorities.
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Allauddin Khilji did not levy any additional taxes on agriculture, and abolished the cut that the intermediaries received for collecting revenue.
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Allauddin Khilji forced the rural chiefs to pay same taxes as the others, and banned them from imposing illegal taxes on the peasants.
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Allauddin Khilji levied taxes on residences and grazing, which were not sanctioned by the Islamic law.
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Allauddin Khilji managed to raise such a large army by paying relatively low salaries to his soldiers, and introduced market price controls to ensure that the low salaries were acceptable to his soldiers.
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Allauddin Khilji banned gambling, and excommunicated drunkards and gamblers from Delhi, along with vendors of intoxicants.
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Allauddin Khilji started concentrating all the power in the hands of his family and his slaves.
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Allauddin Khilji became infatuated with his slave-general Malik Kafur, who became the de facto ruler of the Sultanate after being promoted to the rank of viceroy.
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Allauddin Khilji convinced Alauddin to order the killing of his brother-in-law Alp Khan, an influential noble who could rival Malik Kafur's power.
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Allauddin Khilji married Jhatyapali, the daughter of Hindu king Ramachandra of Devagiri, probably after the 1296 Devagiri raid, or after his 1308 conquest of Devagiri.
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Allauddin Khilji was captured by Khalji forces during an invasion, escorted to Delhi as part of the war booty, and taken into Alauddin's harem.
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Allauddin Khilji rose rapidly in Alauddin's service, mainly because of his proven ability as military commander and wise counsellor, and eventually became the viceroy of the Sultanate.
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Allauddin Khilji started the construction of the Alai Minar, which was intended to be double to size of the Qutb Minar, but the project was abandoned, probably when he died.
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Allauddin Khilji's administration persecuted the Ismaili minorities, after the orthodox Sunnis falsely accused them of permitting incest in their "secret assemblies".
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Allauddin Khilji never asked for legal opinions about political matters, and very few learned men visited him.
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Allauddin Khilji compromised with the Hindu chiefs who were willing to accept his suzerainty.
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Allauddin Khilji had amassed wealth in his treasury through campaigns in Deccan and South India and issued many coins.
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Allauddin Khilji's coins omitted the mention of the Khalifa, replacing it with the self-laudatory title Sikander-us-sani Yamin-ul-Khilafat.
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Allauddin Khilji ceased adding Al-Musta'sim's name, instead adding Yamin-ul-Khilafat Nasir Amiri 'l-Mu'minin.
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