Aram Shah

2nd Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate

Aram Shah was the second king of the Mamluk dynasty.[1] The Mamluk dynasty was the first dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate. He ruled the dynasty from 1210 to 1211.

Succession change

Aram Shah was not a good ruler. The forty nobles group, Chihalgani called Iltutmish to rule over the dynasty. Iltutmish defeated Aram Shah in the war.[2][3] He also became the next king of the dynasty.

Reference change

  1. Ashirbadi Lal Srivastava (1966). The Sultanate of Delhi, 711-1526 A.D. Shiva Lal Agarwala. pp. 92–93.
  2. Peter Jackson, The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History, 29.
  3. Mahajan, V.D. (2016). "The Slave Dynasty". History of Medieval India. New Delhi: Sultan Chand. p. 104. ISBN 978-81-219-0364-6.