The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.203

v3.c20.203

The contemporary chronicle closes here, and there is a *hiatus* in the history of Muhammadan India, which later historians are unable to fill, from the middle of the year 1260 to the beginning of 1266. In attempting to explain the abrupt ending of the *Tabaqāt-i-Nāsirī* some say that the author was poisoned by the order of Balban, whose displeasure he had incurred, others that he was thrown into prison and starved to death, but these tales rest on no authority and are probably pure conjecture.