The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c29.s2.265

v2.c29.s2.265

Rai Bahadur Hiralal has identified the Delhi Sulṭān Mahmūda with Nāṣir ud-Dīn Maḥmūd (1246-66 A.D.), who is reported to have subdued Bundelkhand region and appointed a governor about 1251 A.D.² The name of the governor is not mentioned by the Muslim writers. Hiralal may be right in thinking that he was apparently Malik Julacī of the Batihagarh inscription. ‘Between the conquest of Maḥmūd and the record of our inscription there is an interval of 77 years spread over three governors, the Malik, his son Hisām ud-Dīn, and Jalāl ud-Dīn, giving a fair normal average duration of administration for each.’³