The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.132

v3.c20.132

On Aibak’s death Qabācha also declared himself independent in Multān, and nothing was left to Ārām Shāh but Hindūstān and a part of the Punjab, where the turbulence of the Hindus threatened his rule and alarmed the stoutest hearts among the Muslims. From Lahore the new king marched to Delhi, but the nobles who had remained in the capital when Aibak marched to Lahore, and had had no voice in the election of Ārām Shāh, were loth to accept so feeble a ruler, and invited Shams-ud-dīn Iltutmish, son-in-law of Aibak and the foremost of his slaves, to ascend the throne. Iltutmish marched from Budaun to Delhi, defeated and captured Ārām Shāh, who met him in the plain before the city, and ascended the throne in the latter half of 1211. Of Ārām Shāh, who reigned for less than a year, nothing more is heard.