[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [History of the Qaraunah Turks in India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936) › c6.3 # History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c6.3 History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c6.3 - **Language:** English ### [c6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936.c6.3) Ghiyas-al-Din Tughluq, the founder of the Tughluq dynasty, according to Ibn Batūṭah, was a Qaraunah Turk, one of those who dwelt in the mountains between Sindh and Turkestan. Shams-i-Sirāj ‘Afīf, the official historian of Firuz’s reign, writes in his \*Tarīkh-i-Firuz Shahi\* that he does not want to repeat his account of the origin of the dynasty which, he says, he has already given in his work, the \*Manāqib-i-Sultan Tughluq\*, of which, so far as I am aware, no copies are available.¹ Firishta,² who at the beginning of the reign of Nūr-al-Din Muhammad Jahangir made enquiries at Lahore from persons well-versed in the affairs of the Sultans of India, was informed that there was a tradition in the Punjab that the father of Sultan Ghiyas-al-Din Tughluq was a Turkish slave of Ghiyas-al-Din Balban, who had married a Jat woman of the Punjab, and he is supported by the author of the \*Khulāsat-ut-tawarīkh\*³ who bases his information upon oral tradition which he found current in his native country. He writes: - [Previous: c6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936.c6.2) - [Next: c6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936.c6.4) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936.c6) ## Linked texts (1) - [Tārīkh-i Fīrūzshāhī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tarikh-i-firuzshahi-afif) — Shams-i Sirāj ʿAfīf --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936.c6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936.c6.3) · Pramāṇa