"The devastating raid of South India by Malik Kafur is best summed up in R C Majumdar’s words who characterizes it as being more “spectacular than effective…was par excellence as a predatory raid”."
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P 37, THE HISTORY & CULTURE OF THE INDIAN PEOPLE, VOL VI, BHARATIYA VIDYA BHAVAN quoted from The Madurai Sultanate_ A Concise History - Sandeep Balakrishna
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Malik Kafur
Malik Kafur (died 1316), also known as Taj al-Din Izz al-Dawla, was a prominent slave-general of the Delhi Sultanate ruler Alauddin Khalji. He was captured by Alauddin's general Nusrat Khan during the 1299 invasion of Gujarat, and rose to prominence in the 1300s.
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