The Slave Commander — Malik Kafur
Malik Kafur was a slave and under Alauddin Khalji became the first general to unite India through conquest.
The Sultan army faced the massive Pandian army on the battlefield in Madurai. The war, which ended up as a stalemate and ended the most important kingdom in South India. The Sultan’s slave, who commanded the army, swept across entire south India and defeated every empire and bought India under one rule. He was Malik Kafur, the slave of Alauddin Khalji.
Alauddin Khalji and Malik Kafur:
Alauddin Khalji belonged to the Khalji dynasty, which was the second dynasty to rule the Delhi Sultanate. The Khalji’s were descendants of a Turkic tribe. The Khalji dynasty extended from Afghanistan in the northwest to the Deccan in the south. Alauddin Khalji was one of the ruthless rulers of the Khalji dynasty and overthrew his father in law to ascend to the throne.
Malik Kafur was born as a Hindu and later sold as a slave. His intelligence created an excellent reputation for him. Some account suggests that an interested buyer gave 1000 dinar, a considerable…
