Delhi Malikate

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Malik Ubaidullah Jinna rose from obscurity approximately in 1179, when the founder of the Muslim state of Sindh, Malik Prabha Maulana passed away. His father was from beyond the hills of Kandahar and Kabul, from eastern Persia though a renounced member of a fierce Pashtun tribe with some Turkoman ancestry, while his mother was an ethnic Sindh and a Muslim from Thatta on the edge of the Indus River.

Jinna quickly rose through the military ranks of the Sindh Royal Army and soon became one of the most trusted generals of the malik. From 1162 to 1176 he had conquered Uch to the north from the Hindu Rajputs of Solanki and Turbat from the Imam of Oman. In 1178 he crossed the harsh Thar Desert with fifty war elephants and 20,000 cavalry and infantry troops and began a siege on Mumba. The siege lasted for the next four months. Starvation and diseases caused the Hindu Chauhan Rajputs to surrender. By 1179 he had over 60,000 troops under his control and saw that it was the perfect time to overthrow Prabha Maulana's family; an act that would cause Maulana to turn in his grave.

A short civil war erupted. The loyalists were bigger, but their poor tactics in battle and malnourished troops caused them to lose many engagements across Sindh. In 1181, Jinna defeated the last of the loyalist forces near the small village of Minakot; Ubaidullah Jinna was enthroned as the supreme malik ( Arabic for king ) of Sindh. Over the next course of twenty years, Jinna would expand his state north, west and east and come to rule modern-day Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India. Islam spread throughout these areas and many former Hindus converted. This was, indeed, a thing to see in 1221; all that remained was the massive fortress of Delhi guarded by huge numbers of Hindu Rajputs. Seeing as the majority of the Rajput states in northern India had already been subjugated, Delhi was to be the capital of Jinna's empire. This empire became to be known as the Delhi Malikate, until Malik Ubaidullah Jinna passed away and the empire was conquered by the Turkic Mamluk Dynasty.

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