After having treacherously lured away his uncle-cum-father-in- law from Delhi, Allauddin had him assassinated at Karra in July, 1296 A.D. Allauddin then set out from Karra toward Delhi. Ganga and Yamuna were in flood and the monsoon particularly heavy. His army had to wade through mud and mire. Thus Allauddin gingerly plodded his way toward Delhi. Allauddin was apprehensive of resistance from the late sultan's army as well as from Arkali Khan. But Arkali Khan preferred to play the mouse.
Jalaluddin's widow, Malika-i-Jahan, summoned her army and sent it out to stem Allauddin's advance but to no avail. She then left for Multan with her young sultan-son to take shelter under the wing of Arkali Khan.
The late sultan's mercenary army saw the writing on the wall. They had no will to fight for a woman. Allauddin, in his turn did not want to provoke a fight. He marched at his easy pace toward Delhi while plundering the countryside, he devastated Hindu homes, tore away jewelry from the noses and ears of Hindu women and then distributed the largesse to win over the Muslim noblemen of Delhi, erstwhile supporters of the late sultan.
Five months had elapsed between the late sultan's murder and Allauddin's entry into Delhi. Blundering Indian text-books credit Allauddin with having built Siri (Shree) and the later Moghul king Shahjahan to have built Old Delhi. Both these assertions must be treated as howlers. Siri is where Allauddin (and before him, Jalaluddin) had encamped, which was located outside the precincts of Old Delhi. Both were afraid to enter Old Delhi without first determining what kind of ovation they were going to receive.
"Toward the end of the year 1296 A.D.," records the Tarikh-i- Firoz Shahi (Pg. 160, Vol. III, Elliot & Dowson), "Allauddin entered Delhi with great pomp and a large force. He proceeded to the 'Kushk-i-Lal, the Red Palace', where he took up his abode." Scholars and students of Indian history should awake to this observation of the chronicler Ziauddin Barni. This Red Palace is no other than what we know today as the Red Fort in Delhi. But that does not prevent the idiots to assert that Shahjahan had built the Red Fort in the 17th century!
The Red Fort is a pre-Muslim Hindu Fort. It has been successively occupied by all Muslim conquerors of Delhi. It is therefore a serious error to teach our children that Shahjahan had built this structure in the 17th century. And yet the stupid government of India repeats the same error over its 'Son et Lumi Are' (Sound and Light) expositions! It was king Anangpal of the Tomar Rajput clan who had built the Red Fort at least 1200 years before Shahjahan's birth!
Allauddin's four henchmen were, his brother Ulugh Khan, Nusrat Khan, Zafar Khan and Allauddin's wife's brother, Alp Khan. What these four Khans did during their life time is not a history of human beings but a biography of brutes.
The late sultan's other sons hibernating in Multan were potential thorns in Allauddin's side. He naturally wanted to do away with them. A huge army under Ulugh Khan and Zafar Khan was commandeered to round them up along with their wives, servants and supporters. Shivering for their lives, the helpless group negotiated a surrender and thus were promised an honorable treatment.
Allauddin had not expected such a meek surrender. As soon as the good news arrived in Delhi, Allauddin ordered a special celebration. The group taken prisoner in Multan was marched to Delhi. Nusrat Khan was deputed by Allauddin from Delhi to intercept the prisoners before they arrived in Delhi. The prisoners were to be maimed prior to arrival in Delhi before they begged for royal mercy.
In a shady desolate spot on way to Delhi, the party was halted by Nusrat Khan carrying Allauddin's orders. And then followed a most foul deed. The royal prisoners were robbed of all their belongings. The attractive young women were segregated for rape. Others, the old and the infants were slaughtered in cold blood. A few elite were spared their lives but only after their eyes had been gouged out with red-hot irons. The blinded Arkali Khan's children were all slaughtered. His attractive wives and maid- servants were marched off to Allauddin's and other courtiers' harems. This is what Muslims did to Muslims!
Nusrat Khan's rank villainy was rewarded by the Chief Ministership. Nusrat Khan was commanded to strip the late sultan's courtiers of all wealth bestowed upon them when the sultan was alive. However, in fairness to Allauddin it must be said that the custom was well established already and it was not something that Allauddin invented for the first time!
Within a year of Allauddin's accession, a large Moghul army crossed the Indus and invaded Punjab. Allauddin sent out an army to intercept the Moghuls. A battle took place near Jalandhar. The Moghuls were defeated and a terrible massacre took place. Many heads loaded on camels and asses were sent to Allauddin for his review.
On way back from Jalandhar, Allauddin's army looted all Hindu homes and turned all Hindu temples into mosques. Cows were butchered and Hindu women raped. It is such atrocities that had forced the local Hindus to accept Islam and the fairy tales that are told by the Gandhis and the Nehrus that Indian Moslems were all willing converts to that alien creed are just that, fairy tales. And this has been going on since the time of Mohammed Qasem.
In 1297 A.D. Allauddin's army set out on its annual Islamic duty to plunder Hindu homes in a big way. Every year they chose a new region for the exercise. This time it was the turn of Gujarat.
Ulugh Khan and Nusrat Khan were entrusted with the campaign. In the face of the Muslim army, Karan Rai of Gujarat fled his capital Anhilwad leaving his daughter Deval Devi with Ramdeo Rai of Deogiri. Anhilwad and Gujarat were mercilessly plundered. Queen Kamal Devi and other women of Karan Rai's household were raped. Barni tells us: "All Gujarat became a prey to the invaders and the idol of Somnath reinstalled after the victory of Mohammed Ghazni, was removed to Delhi where it was laid down for people to trample upon." (Pg. 163, Vol. III, Elliot & Dowson)
Nusrat Khan proceeded to Khambayat and looted all the Hindu merchants there. A handsome Hindu boy was retained by Nusrat for sodomy. This boy later became notorious in Indian history under the name of Malik Kafur. In no time, he blossomed into a perfect prototype of a Muslim marauder.
As Ulugh Khan and Nusrat Khan turned back toward Delhi, their armies laden with a fabulous loot, a serious revolt broke out in their ranks. Along with them, they were carrying hundreds of maimed and dishonored Hindu women, converted to Islam. Disgusted with the treatment meted out to them, some of the prisoners along with some Muslim soldiery, broke out in open revolt. Nusrat's insistence if everyone had remitted the one-fifth of the loot to the sultan, had aggravated the situation further. The infuriated rebels murdered Nusrat Khan's brother Malik Azzuddin. Ulugh Khan was chased and he managed to escape. Allauddin's sister's son, asleep in Ulugh Khans' tent, was murdered by mistake. This disturbance spread throughout the army. Nusrat was successful in salvaging the major part of the loot from the hands of the rebels. Only on Nusrat Khan's pledge not to plague the ranks with an inquisition, the revolt could be brought under control. A large number of Hindu captives were successful in escaping to freedom.
Soon after the army arrived in Delhi with the rest of the prisoners and the captive Hindu women and children, Allauddin, incensed by the news of the revolt, put the whole lot in prison. Taking a cue from Allauddin, Nusrat Khan, who was chafing to avenge his brother's murder, "ordered the wives of the assassins to be dishonored and exposed to the most disgraceful treatment; he then handed them over to vile persons to make common strumpets of them. Their children he caused to be cut to pieces on the heads of their mothers. Outrages like this are practiced in no religion or creed," (Pp. 164-165, Vol. III, Elliot & Dowson). Barni, himself a Muslim, has rightly observed that such outrages are not practiced in any other creed but Islam.
Simultaneously with the rape of Gujarat, Zafar Khan was ordered to lead an expedition to Siwistan (Shivasthan) to wrest it from the Moghuls. Zafar Khan besieged and reduced the fort. The Moghul leaders Saldi and his brother, along with thousands of his soldiery, were sent to Delhi in chains, accompanied by their women and children. As preordained in Muslim invasion practice, the men were all maimed or murdered; the children were converted to Islam and retained as slaves. The women were raped and sold.
Zafar Khan won great renown in this engagement. Until then, Moghuls were dreaded by the Muslims; but after this outstanding victory over the Moghuls, Zafar Khan became a hero. There was also jealousy among the courtiers. Ulugh Khan, brother of Allauddin, irked by Zafar's prowess, incited the sultan to Zafar him down to size. Gratitude is unknown to Muslims and Allauddin thought of sending Zafar Khan to Lakhnauti on a campaign or to put him out of the way by poison or by blinding.
To avenge their defeat in Sind, the infuriated Moghuls set out with a huge army from Mawarun-Nahr led by Katlagh Khwaja. He is described as the son of Amir Daud Khan while by others as of Zud. He was probably a bastard as was so common in the teeming Muslim harems. The Mughal forces marched with remarkable rapidity and soon arrived at the outskirts of Delhi. Allauddin "marched out of Old Delhi and pitched his tent in Siri (Shree)". Some nobles had advised Allauddin to patch up with the Moghuls. But Allauddin was worried about his reputation in the harem. He said: "If I were to follow your advice, to whom could I show my face? How could I go into my harem? Come what may, tomorrow I will march into the plain of Kili." This kili is the kila (the fort) of Tughlakabad. Zafar Khan was lionized and Zafar's vanity got the better of his judgment. He entered the thick of the battle and was killed. The Moghuls won that battle but after a heavy loss. This caused the Moghuls to retreat. Fortunately for Allauddin, the Moghuls' retreat enhanced his reputation as a dragon-killer. And he got rid of Zafar Khan in the bargain.
Allauddin's armies now went berserk all over the country ravaging region after region. They brought in new slaves, more converts, hundreds of Hindu women and children. Allauddin was enormously pleased with his growing empire. Barni writes: "Every year he had two or three sons born." (Pg. 168, Vol. III, Elliot & Dowson). Of daughters, obviously, there was no count.
Allauddin was illiterate. With his renewed success he appeared to have lost his head. Barni tells us that Allauddin began to emulate the Prophet Mohammed and used to brag: "Allah gave the blessed Prophet four friends...I can with the help of these four, establish a new religion and creed, and my sword and the swords of my friends will bring all men to adopt it." (Pg. 169, Vol. III, Elliot & Dowson) Obviously Allauddin did not succeed in this while the Prophet did.
The drunkenness and plotting parties of the newly rich courtiers of Allauddin made him apprehensive of a coup. He ordered total prohibition and banned all visits by the courtiers to one another's house without the knowledge and the permission of the sovereign. Each one was confined to one's own house. The order on prohibition was, however, bound to fail. Allauddin himself was an inveterate boozer. He had to tolerate its open defiance. He soon announced withdrawal of the ban on unrestrained indulgence.
Allauddin then decided upon the capture of the mountain fortress at Ranthambhore. It was ruled by Hamir Deo, a valiant descendant of Prithvi Raj Chauhan. Ulugh Khan and Nusrat Khan laid siege to the fort in 1299-1301 A.D. One day, as Nusrat approached the fort to direct the construction of a mound and a redoubt, a huge rock hurled from the fort struck Nusrat Khan. Nusrat fell senseless. He remained in a coma for two days and then he died. Alarmed at the death of his four supporters, Allauddin himself left Delhi for Ranthambhore. Soon after his arrival there, his brother's son Akat Khan, organized an open revolt and struck down Allauddin during a hunting expedition. Allauddin lay prostrate for a week in pain and fear. Akat Khan had thought that Allauddin was dead. He returned to Delhi and proclaimed himself king and started distributing largesses to win support from the courtiers.
Allauddin now was very suspicious of the courtiers. He repaired to Ulugh Khan's tent, which was some distance away. The news of Allauddin's return spread terror in the rebel camp. Akat Khan fled. After a hot pursuit Akat Khan and his younger brother Katlagh Khwaja were captured. Both were put to the sword. Stuck on a spear, Akat's head was displayed before the army and then sent to Delhi.
Taking advantage of Allauddin's absence from Delhi, Umar Khan and Mangru Khan, sons of his sister, organized a revolt. However, Allauddin broke the rebellion. The two were arrested and marched off to Allauddin's camp near Ranthambhore. Both were blinded and their harems distributed among the lecherous nobility.
This was followed by yet another revolt by Haji Maula, a slave of the late kotwal of Delhi. This slave was an erstwhile Hindu. Feigning to have received a letter of authority from Allauddin, he approached the kotwal. As the kotwal came out of his house he was struck down and beheaded. Another grandee known as Allauddin Ayaz was also summoned to the rebel Haji Maula's presence. Ayaz, afraid to stir out of his house, reinforced his guard.
In the description which follows, Barni says: "Haji Maula then proceeded to the Red Palace, seated himself upon a balcony and set free all the prisoners. Bags of gold tankas were brought out of the treasury and scattered among the people. Arms also were brought from the armory and horses from the royal stables and distributed among the rioters. The Maula set off with a party of horsemen and went to the house of Alawi (a descendant of Ali and from the mother's side, a grandson of Sultan Shamsuddin) and carried him off by force and then seated him on the throne in the Red Palace." (Pg. 176, Vol. III, Elliot & Dowson)
Four days after this incident, Malik Hamiduddin, a henchman of Allauddin, stormed into Old Delhi through the Ghazni gate. A free-for-all ensued. Haji Maula was slain. Alawi was decapitated; his head was displayed on a spear in the streets of the city.
In the mean time Allauddin's army besieging Ranthambhore was in great distress. The brave Rajputs by repeated sallies had taken a heavy toll of the enemy. The Muslim army continued to ravage the countryside to eliminate all support for the fort from the people.
Under pretext of the revolts and the plunder of the royal treasury, most of the residents of Delhi were subjected to meticulous search. Their wealth was confiscated by Allauddin. A part of the extorted wealth was sent to the Muslim commanders at Ranthambhore who were in a mood of despair. Hamir's chief minister Ranmal was bribed with a lot of money. Ranmal let the gates of the fort unlocked for the enemy to enter at night. Hamir Deo, the ruler was slain and so were many of the garrison. But Ranmal never did see any bribe. He was tortured to death by Allauddin's men.
Ulugh Khan now prepared to lead an expedition to regions of Tilang and Malbar but died on the way. "His corpse was conveyed to Delhi and buried in his own house." (Barni: Pg. 179, Vol. III, Elliot & Dowson). This supports our contention that every Muslim nobleman was buried in his own residence, residence conquered from previous Hindu owner. Not a single tomb was ever built for any of the Muslim marauder or fakir, ever.
Allauddin's bigoted anti-Hindu regulations (as per the Jeziya from the Sharia') were so strictly carried out in all the villages and towns, says Barni, that the chaudharis and khuts and mukaddims were not able to ride on horses, carry any weapons, dress in fine clothes or indulge in betel. (Pp. 182-183, Vol. III, Elliot & Dowson)
The same rules for the collection of the tributes applied to all...and people were brought to such a state of obedience that one revenue officer would string 20 khuts, mukaddims or chaudharis together by the neck and enforce payment by blows. No Hindu could hold up his head, and in their houses no sign of gold and silver, tankas or jitals or any superfluity was seen. Driven by destitution, the wives of the khuts and mukaddims went and served for hire in the houses of Mussalmans...Blows, confinement in the stocks, imprisonment and chains, were all employed to enforce payment.
Barni the chronicler, author of the Tarikh-i-Firozshahi has left us a very revealing conversation between Sultan Allauddin and his religious counselor, a kazi. Since the conversation is typical of the Islamic attitude toward the Hindus and all non- Muslims in general, we quote him.
"The Sultan asked the kazi 'How are Hindus designated in the Islamic Law, as payers of tribute or givers of tribute?' The kazi replied, They are called payers of tribute and when the revenue officer demands silver from them, they should, without question and with all humility and respect, tender gold. If the officer throws dirt into their mouths, they must without reluctance open their mouths wide to receive it. The due subordination of the zimmi (tribute-payer) is exhibited by this throwing of dirt in their mouths. The glorification of Islam is a duty...Allah holds them in contempt, for He says 'keep them in subjection.' To keep the Hindus in abasement is especially a religious duty because they are the most inveterate enemies of the Prophet and because the Prophet has commanded us to slay them, plunder them and make them captive, saying, 'convert them to Islam or kill them, enslave them and spoil their wealth and property...The great doctor (Hanifa) to whose school we belong, has asserted to the imposition of the jeziya (poll tax and 19 other disabilities) on Hindus. Doctors of other schools allow no other alternative but 'death or Islam'." (Pg. 184, ibid).
The above passage fully explains the role that Islam has played in India and throughout the world all these centuries since its founding. One has only to look at Saudi Arabia and now Islamic Pakistan.
On his part Sultan Allauddin said: "Oh Kazi! Thou art a learned man...It is all in accordance with Islamic law that the Hindus should be reduced to the most abject subjection and obedience...The Hindus will never become submissive and obedient till they are reduced to poverty. I have, therefore, given orders that just sufficient should be left to them, from year to year, of corn, milk and curds, but they shall not be allowed to accumulate hoards and property." (Pg. 185)
In 1303 A.D. Allauddin invaded Chittor fort. His ambition was to capture Padmini, the beautiful queen of Chittor, a veritable Venus. The Rajputs inflicted heavy losses on Allauddin's army. While Allauddin was at Chittor, the Moghuls invaded Delhi, Allauddin had to lift the siege of Chittor within a month of commencing it and rush to Delhi to face the Moghuls. The Moghul army was headed by Turgha Khan. The two armies met at Siri (Shree), a suburb of Delhi. Allauddin was in bad shape, as half of his army had been decimated by the Rajputs in Chittor. The Moghuls won but for some reason did not capture Delhi and retreated.
Just at this time, the neo-converts of Moghulpura, Delhi revolted against Allauddin. Allauddin wrecked a terrible vengeance by massacring some 40,000 people in Moghulpura. A few months later, Allauddin again attacked Chittor and captured it (Monday, Aug. 26, 1303). He stationed a Muslim garrison in the fort and placed Maldev, a scion of the Jhalor royal family, on the Chittor throne, as a tutelary king.
It is said that in his first assault on Chittor when Allauddin lost all hope of conquering the fort, he sent a message to the ruler Rana Bhim Singh that he would be satisfied if he could see the beautiful Padmini in a mirror and would raise the siege and return to Delhi.
The story goes that being allowed to see Padmini in a mirror, Allauddin was easily captivated by her beauty and he decided to play foul. The generous Rajputs who used to treat their guests with due honor escorted Allauddin out of the fort in state. Rana Bhim Singh, the Rajput ruler, himself accompanied Allauddin up to Allauddin's camp. The treacherous Muslim Allauddin ordered the arrest of Bhim Singh and his small escort. He then sent word to the fort that if Padmini was not surrendered, Rana Bhim Singh and his companions would be tortured to death.
The Rajputs then hatched a daring plan. They sent word to Allauddin that Padmini accompanied by a large retinue of other Rajput women would be delivered at Allauddin's camp in a caravan of palanquins. But instead of women, a brave, fully armed Rajput veteran took his seat in each palanquin with a veil carefully drawn over his whiskered face. The palanquin bearers too were warriors. When that caravan of 700 palanquins reached Allauddin's camp, word was sent that Rana Bhim Singh be allowed a last half- hour farewell meeting with Padmini. Overjoyed at the lecherous prospect of 700 Rajput beauties delivered at his door, Allauddin freed Bhim Singh. No sooner had Bhim Singh reached the Rajput caravan than he was whisked away by a strong and select secret escort toward Chittor. In the mean time, the others, throwing off their petticoat disguise shouted Jai Ekalingaji and fell with Hindu fury on Allauddin's camp slashing the throats and chopping the heads of Turks, Arabs, Afghans, Abyssinians - and all their ilk who infested Hindusthan.
In this saga of Rajput patriotism, two Rajputs shot to fame. They have since become legendary figures whose loyalty to the country and supreme sacrifice have been for ever immortalized in the folklore of Rajasthan. The legend is made up of a twosome, Gorha and Badal. These two young warriors had accompanied Padmini from Ceylon when she was married into the Chittor royal family. They had led the escort of Rana Bhim Singh. As soon as the cry went up in Allauddin's camp that Rana Bhim Singh has escaped, the party hurrying with him to Chittor was pursued. In that running battle, Gorah and Badal slew every Muslim who dared get abreast of them. Ultimately as Rana Bhim Singh was conducted safely inside Chittor, Gorha and Badal, overcome by their wounds fell at the entrance of the fort with the smile of having successfully carried out a divine mission, on their faces.
That the Rajputs had allowed Padmini's beauty to be scanned by Allauddin in a mirror is a canard invented by a Muslim poet called Muhammad Jaisi. Bhim Singh never allowed the lecherous Mussalman Allauddin to set his eyes on his famed wife. It was Allauddin who despairing of capturing Chittor had suggested a face-saving surrender. Feigning repentance, he lured Bhim Singh to his own camp for negotiating a truce, swearing by the Koran that he meant no treachery. In typical Hindu naivet=82 and chivalry, Bhim Singh, not yet sufficiently broken to Muslim treachery, visited Allauddin's camp with a small escort. It was to square this account that the brave Rajputs turned the tables on Allauddin by feigning to deliver 700 beauties demanded by him, at his door.
After this shameful defeat, Allauddin had to hurry to Delhi to face a Moghul invasion. But he returned in a few months again in his lecherous quest for Padmini. The previous invasion had converted the Rajputs of the countryside to Islam. These converts were now put in the vanguard and made to fight their own erstwhile brethren for a nefarious alien tyrant. On Monday, Aug. 26, 1303 Chittor fell but not before thousands of Rajput women inside had entered a cellar and burnt themselves to ashes preferring a fiery death and unsullied honor to the lecherous hell of Islamic torture and venery. Discomfited Allauddin in impotent anger massacred thousands of children and old men found in the fort.
In 1305 A.D. another Moghul army, led by Aibak Khan, invaded India. The Moghuls ravaged Multan and then moved south. They were challenged by Ghazibeg Tughlak, Allauddin's area commander. Taken by surprise, the Moghuls were routed. Those captured were trampled to death under elephants' feet in the streets of Delhi. This disaster proved to be a deterrent for the Moghuls for a long time thereafter.
In 1306 A.D. Allauddin fitted out a military expedition under Malik Kafur to invade the Deccan. Alp Khan posted in Gujarat was asked to join Malik Kafur. Deogiri was besieged on the pretext that its ruler Ramdeo Rao had failed to send the annual tribute. A more important consideration, however, was that while in the Gujarat campaign, Allauddin had been able to capture and rape the wife of Raja Karan, their beautiful daughter Deval Devi had escaped with her father and sought shelter in Deogiri. She was now captured and sent to Delhi to be dumped in the harem of Allauddin's degenerate son, Khizr Khan. It is amazing how India's Seville historians sing loudly of Allauddin's many constructions as if by magic all over India. Allauddin had hardly the time, money, peace or security or a frame of mind to build anything! And yet he is credited with building a part of the Kutub Minar!
In 1309 A.D. Malik Kafur was ordered by Allauddin to attack Warangal. The entire province was laid waste and its ruler Narapati subdued. In 1310 A.D. Malik Kafur raided Dwarasamudra, the capital of the Ballal kings. Their kingdom cam to an end with the attack of Malik Kafur. Malik Kafur continued to the southern part of India without much resistance. Laden with legendary plunder, Kafur and other Muslim commanders returned to Delhi with 612 elephants, 20,000 horses, 95,000 maunds of gold and much more. Allauddin's army had made a clean sweep of a large part of India. It plundered and ransacked such rich cities in central India as Mandavgadh, Ujjain, Dhar and Chanderi.
Raja Ramdeo Rai of Deogiri had been allowed to return to Deogiri after doing obeisance to Allauddin in Delhi. He died a few years later in the agony and shame of having been reduced to a vassal of a lecherous alien. His son, on ascending the throne, refused to owe allegiance to Allauddin. Ramdeo Rai's son was captured and put to death when Malik Kafur made a subsequent thrust at Deogiri later. The whole kingdom was annexed by Allauddin. This was the very peak of Allauddin's career.
For Allauddin, a series of reverses followed. Chittor was recaptured by Rana Hamir. Deogiri was recaptured by Ramdeo Rai's son-in-law Harpal Deo. The Muslim garrison commander at Deogiri was forced to flee. Reports of reverses came from many other parts of the country. Allauddin's health was already on the wane. The exact date of his death is not known. His death is said to have occurred on Dec. 30, 1315 or Jan. 2, 1316 or Dec. 19, 1316. Thus came to an end one of the most atrocious regimes of the millennium of Muslim tyranny in India.