Alauddin alam shah

In The last Sayyid ruler, ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿĀlam Shah (reigned 1445–51), peacefully surrendered Delhi to his nominal vassal, the Afghan Bahlūl Lodī (reigned 1451–89), and retired to the Badaun district, which he retained until his death in 1478. Before he moved to Delhi, Bahlūl Lodī had already carved out a…

Alauddin Alam Shah was the last ruler of Bahlol Lodi was already looking for such an opportunity. He immediately marched against Delhi and captured power. Hamid Khan was expecting that he would make Bahlol Lodi his puppet but he proved too powerful to bow down before his ambitions. Hamid Khan was imprisoned and killed later. Bahlol Lodi invited Alauddin Alam Shah to get his throne back but he refused politely. He continued to live in Badaun till his death in A.D. 1476. He said to Bahlol, “ Since my father called you his son and I have no anxiety for the provision of my few wants, I am content with one Pargana of Badaun and am giving up the empire to you.”

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After the death of Alauddin Alam Shah, succeeded him to the throne of the Sayyid Dynasty, the fourth in the line of five dynasties that comprisedDelhi Sultanate. This pleasure loving ruler was more inefficient than his father. Such was his fondness for gratification and aversion to work that he abdicated the throne in favour of 1478. • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (44) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (2) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (2) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (7) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (14) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (3) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (4) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (2) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (8) • (4) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (15) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (2) • (1) • (3) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (2) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (17) • (41) • (3) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (9) • (11) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (8) • (1) • (2) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (1) • (...

Badaun in Uttar Pradesh is just another small but busy town choking on traffic. In fact, chances are you’ve never even heard of it. Yet there was a time when this mofussil town was second in importance only to Delhi and a centre of Islamic culture and learning. Located on the banks of the Sot river, a tributary of the Ganga, Badaun is around 283 km south-east of Delhi, in Badaun district of Uttar Pradesh. The region was said to have been ruled by the Panchala Mahajanapada, one of the 16 great republics of ancient India, and which covers present-day Badaun, Farrukhabad, Aligarh and Bareilly districts. Very little is known about Badaun prior to the 11th century. There are claims that there was a settlement called ‘Buddhgaon’ (village of Buddhists), which later became ‘Badaun’. Other accounts claim that the region was ruled by kings of the Ahir community, one of whom was ‘Raja Budh’. Also, there are several claims and counter-claims that Badaun was ruled by Raja Mahipal as well as several others, making the history of this period difficult to decipher. What we do know for sure dates to the 12th century CE. In 1192, Sultan Muhammad Ghori defeated Prithviraj Chauhan, the ruler of Delhi, and established the Delhi Sultanate in the subcontinent. Badaun and surrounding regions, which comprised mostly of thick forests and grasslands of the Ganga-Yamuna doab, were captured by Ghori’s general, Qutb-ud-din Aibak, in 1196. Badaun’s importance thus begins with the founding of the first d...