Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud Shah Tughluq
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Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud Shah Tughluq was the last sultan of the Tughlaq dynasty
. During his reign in AD 1398, Amir Timur
the Chagtai
ruler invaded India. He carried away with him a large booty from Delhi
and the surrounding area. Soon after the invasion, the Tughlaq dynasty came to an end.
Tughlaq dynasty
The Tughlaq dynasty of north India started in 1321 in Delhi when Ghazi Malik assumed the throne under the title of Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq. The Tughluqs were a Muslim family of Turkic origin...
. During his reign in AD 1398, Amir Timur
Timur
Timur , historically known as Tamerlane in English , was a 14th-century conqueror of West, South and Central Asia, and the founder of the Timurid dynasty in Central Asia, and great-great-grandfather of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Dynasty, which survived as the Mughal Empire in India until...
the Chagtai
Timurid Dynasty
The Timurids , self-designated Gurkānī , were a Persianate, Central Asian Sunni Muslim dynasty of Turko-Mongol descent whose empire included the whole of Iran, modern Afghanistan, and modern Uzbekistan, as well as large parts of contemporary Pakistan, North India, Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the...
ruler invaded India. He carried away with him a large booty from Delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
and the surrounding area. Soon after the invasion, the Tughlaq dynasty came to an end.