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| '''Ali Mardan Khilji''' was a ruler of ] from 1210 until 1212. | |||
| '''Ali Mardan Khilji''' dethroned ] and styled himself as the independent sultan of ] in 1210. He ruled for two years. Ali Mardan's cruelty and brutality produced disgust among the courtiers and he was assassinated by them in 1212. | |||
| ==History== | |||
| The previous ] ruler ] was assassinated by Ali Mardan while he was lying ill at ] on his return from the Tibet expedition in 1206. But ], one of the officers of ], having heard the news of the tragic end of his master, hurriedly marched with his army from Lakhnor and reached ]. Ali Mardan succeeded in fleeing to Delhi where he instigated ] to send an army against ]. However, Ali Mardan doesn't gain his reward straight away. <ref>, Kantaji.com</ref> | |||
| ] found Ali Mardan a valuable acquisition to his court. When the Sultan took the field against his formidable enemy Malik Taj-uddin Yalduz of Ghazni who had invaded Punjab in 1208 AD. Ali Mardan accompanied him to ] and thence to Ghazni in the victorious train of the Sultan. Ali Mardan tasted the pleasure of Qutbuddin's riotous reign of forty days in that city. But afterwards he fell a prisoner into the hands of the Turks during Qutbuddin's precipitate retreat towards Hindustan (1208-1209). But captivity meant only a change of patrons for Ali Mardan, whom Taj-uddin also found no less worthy and accepted as a courtier. There he became very intimate with a Khilji tribesman of his clan, Salar Zafar, a noble of high rank at Ghazni. Ali Mardan Khilji after a year's detention at Ghazni rejoined Sultant Qutbuddin at Lahore. His services and sufferings were rewarded by the Sultan who now appointed him Viceroy of Lakhnauti dethroning ] and became the ruler of ] in 1210. He ruled for two years.<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopaedia|last1=Singh|first1=Nagendra |year=2003||isbn=978-8126113903|page=190|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=i4tsWh7mRwYC|accessdate=2011-02-22}}</ref> | |||
| ==Death== | |||
| He reigned for two years before he was killed in 1213 AD by the Khilji nobles. ] was elected as the ] ruler once again. | |||
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Ali Mardan Khilji dethroned Iwaj Khilji and styled himself as the independent sultan of Bengal in 1210. He ruled for two years. Ali Mardan's cruelty and brutality produced disgust among the courtiers and he was assassinated by them in 1212.