6_Glorious_Epochs_of_Indian_History

5TH GtORIOUS EPOCH
face the first onslaught of the Muslims in A.D. 1298 and the
governing authority of the Hindus was much shaken down,
in the chaotic conditions then jprevailing, a very tender,:
attractive but very brilliant Hindu youth had been captured
and made a slave by the Muslim noblemen and was offered
into the service of AUauddin^, much the same way and for
the same reason as Maliq Kafur was made a slave. Thia
youth was originally a Hindu, belonging to thCiUntouchable
caste of Paria or Parwar (sweepers) in Gujrath'. One or two
Muslim writers deny that he was a Paria (sweeper), but
emphatically assert that he was a Rajput. After having
been captured and converted to Islam, he was first called
'Hasan*, When he was taken in the service of AUauddin
at Delhi, in keeping with the social vice of the Muslims {viz.,
sodomy paragraph 729) the greatest noblemen and generals
of the court had unnatural sexual relations with him, and
so they were extremely solicitous about serving his whims .'
When after Allauddin's death in A.D. 1316 Maliq Kafur
became the chief administrator, he also came to have great
regard for his abilities. Very soon Hasan was given the title
of Khushrukhan^. For even in the days of AUauddin he was
being sent independently on some small military expeditions
in charge of small troops. That Hasan should become
Khushrukhan and then a general in the army so rapidly
bespeaks of his exceptional qualities. But more than these
qualities of his limitless love that Mubarik, the son of
AUauddin, bore towards this charming young man was
responsible for such a spectacular rise. So after both AUauddin
and Maliq Kafur died or were dispatched, as the case may
be, Mubarik got the Sultanate of Delhi mainly with Khushru-
khan's assistance, and quite naturally all the reins of the
government passed easily into the hands of Khushrukhan*,
the dearest, ablest and the most trustworthy young nobleman
of Mubarik's court; and young Khushrukhan, too, proved
wholly efficient in the discharge of his responsible job.
Mubarik was vicious and pleasure-seeking by nature'. There­
fore he considered it a god-sent gift to have such an efficient