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d. 1280 India

Ghiyas ud din Balban (Persian: غیاث الدین بلبن; 1216–1287, reigned: 1266–1287) was the ninth sultan of the Mamluk dynasty of Delhi.

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Also known as: Ghiyãsu’d-Dîn Balban

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In the administration of justice he was inflexible, showing no favour to his brethren or children, to his associates or attendants.

Sultan Balban, while he was a Khan, was addicted to wine drinking.

It is true that Balban also made detailed enquiries about the families of all his officers. He refused to grant audience to a low-born officer (Amir-i-Bazariyan) for “granting him an interview would reduce the status of the king in the eyes of the common people and diminish the prestige of the throne”.

Sultan Ghiyasu-d Balban was a man of experience in matters of government.

In the year of his accession, the Sultan felt the repression of the Miwdttis to be the first of his duties, and for a whole year he was occupied in overthrowing them and in scouring the jungles, which he effectually accomplished. Great numbers of Miwdttis were put to the sword.

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