"J.L. Mehta characterizes Malik Kafur’s South Indian campaign as follows: Politically, his campaign to the far south proved a failure because both of the Pandya princes eluded him and none made a formal treaty of surrender nor recognized the paramountcy of Alauddin Khalji over the dominions of Madura. The campaign proved, however, most fruitful from the point of view of material gains; Malik Kafur returned to Delhi on October 18, 1311, with 612 elephants, 96,000 maunds of gold, 20,000 horses, and several chests of precious jewels and pearls. Amir Khusrau gives the weight of precious stones of incalculable value at 500 maunds."
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P 157, Advanced Study in the History of Medieval India, Volume 1: Jaswant Lal Mehta. 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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