Alauddin-Masud Shah
The accession of Masud Shah was a complete victory for the nobles. It was now clear that only a puppet of the nobles could remain Sultan of Delhi. But , one more thing was clear that not a single noble among the forty' was powerful enough to raise himself to the throne. Their mutual jealousy had restrained them to place anyone of them on the throne and therefore, once more the throne was offered to one of the descendents of Iltutmish though, of course, without power.
Masud Shah was offered the throne on the condition that he would delegate all the powers to the forty' and remain the Sultan only in name. Primarily the period of Masud Shah marked the rise of Balban as power behind the throne. The conflict between the Taziks and the Turkish Slave nobles, on the one hand,and the mutual jealousies of the slave-nobles,on the other gave him the opportunity to build up his position.After building up his position he conspired against Masud Shah and deposed him from the throne. In June, 1246 A.D, Masud Shah was deposed and Nasir-ud-din Mahmud, a grandson of Iltutmish was placed on the throne.
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