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Ferozshah Tughlak who grabbed the throne after the death of Mohammed Tughlak is yet another Muslim tyrant who has been suffered to masquerade in Indian history as a great benefactor of Hindusthan.
On the third day of Mohammed Tughlak's death, 28 miles from Thatta, where he was camping to capture that town, his disaffected army with all its camp followers was in full retreat. By his obnoxious behavior Mohammed Tughlak had antagonized everyone. His enemies now swarmed from all sides to take revenge on his retinue, army and henchmen. Seeing the camp broken up and the leaderless army in full retreat, the Moghuls poured upon it from the front and Thatta garrison from the rear. The women in the harem were dragged by their hair and raped. The treasure and the baggage were soon looted.
Mohammed Tughlak, reduced to impotence through lechery, had no son. His paternal cousin Firozshah being the nearest male relation assumed command of the retreating army. He was born in 1309 A.D. to a harem brother of Ghiyasuddin, the founder of the Tughlak dynasty.
The sycophantic chronicler Shams-i-Shiraz Afif, two generations younger than Firozshah, has left for gullible posterity a flattering, concocted account of that wicked reign, written in an "untiring strain of eulogy" (Pg. 269, Vol. III, Elliot & Dowson). While Barni's chronicle dealing with only a part of Firozshah's reign, is known as Tarikh-i-Firozshahi (because it was completed during that reign), Afif's chronicle also bears the same name. Another chronicle called "Futuhat-i-Firozshahi" (meaning Victories of Firozshah though he was routed in all his campaigns) having been dictated by Firozshah himself is bound to contain nothing but bravado. It is on such blasphemous chronicles that Indian histories are based and debased.
Allauddin, the notorious Khilji, had among his hirelings the three Tughlak brothers - Ghiyasuddin, Rajab and Abu Bakr. These Tughlak hoodlums had been let loose by Allauddin to ravage the Hindu kingdom of Dipalpur. Hearing that the Hindu ruler of the place, Rana Mall Bhatti, had beautiful daughters the lecherous Tughlaks plotted to abduct them. The Muslim miscreants demanded of the Rana surrender of his daughters. The Rana was not a man to entertain this outrageous demand. He conveyed to them a strong rebuke and rebuff. Chafing under that insult and itching to rape the Rana's women, the Khilji-Tughlak combine set out to rape all women in the Rana's territory and loot and burn defenseless homesteads. The Rana's old mother hearing of the torture and torment let loose on the people was sorely grieved. Hearing her loud lament, the Rana's daughter Neela offered to sacrifice her own chastity to Muslim lechery if that was going to stop their depredations and save the homes and hearths of many women. Ultimately, the Rana yielded to the Muslim mischief and Neela was surrendered. She was sent to Rajab's harem and named Kadbanu. Firozshah, an only son, was thus born from the rape of a Hindu damsel.
Author : Shri Purushottam Nagesh Oak
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