Person
Nasir ud-Din Mahmud Shah Tughluq
Last sultan of the Tughluq dynasty in Delhi (1394–1412/1413), a grandson of Firuz Shah. For his first years he fought a rival sultan, his cousin Nusrat Shah, who held Firozabad; in December 1398 he and his minister Mallu Iqbal Khan were defeated by Timur outside Delhi, and he fled to Gujarat. Back in Delhi after Mallu's death in 1405, he kept only a shadowy authority until his own death.
- Dates
- … – between 1412 and 1413
- Events
- 1 event
- Regions
- South Asia
- In the threads
- South Asia (14th – mid-15th c.)
Events
- Timur sacks Delhibetween 16 December and 17 December 1398 – between 31 December 1398 and 1 January 1399 · South Asia