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2 Baranisays about Sultari Jalal-u'd-din Khalji :-- (View the image of this page) "Since he belonged to a different race, he had no confidence in the Turks, nor did the Turks own him as belonging to their tribe.
" The author of Tabaqat-i-Akbari calls j alal-ud-din and Mahmud Khalji the grandsons of Qalij Khan, the son-in-law of Chengiz Khan, who had settled down in the hil1y country of Ghor and Gurjistan after the defeat of the Khwarizmshah by his father-in-law.
Sultan Muhammad bin-Tughluq is also reported · to have said to Shaikh Fakhr-u'd-din, a leading mystic of the day: "I want to overthrow the descendants of Chengiz Khan.
. (View the image of this page)"Many of the Maliks and Amirs who wete of Turkish origin, joined Sultan Jalal u'd-din at his camp, and the Khaljiforce considerably increased.
nobles ceased to fear the Sultan, Barani says that the authority of 'Sultan · 'Ala-u'd-din was in a way forced on people because they· did not consider the old peace-loving Sultan· worthy of sovereignty.
" It was also Sultan 'Ala-u'd-din Khalji who ventured to throw overboard the fiction of the suzerainty of the Abbaside Caliphate.
He also contradicts himselfwhen he says: "Rebellion could not break outin the Empire ( during the reign of Sultan Qutb-u'd-din Mubarak Shah Khalji } because the old and experienced 'Alai nobles held the provinces.
" 1° Thus the competent old 'Alai nobles in the days of Sultan Qutb-u'd-din Mubarak Shah were the 'low-born persons' of the 'Alai reign.