History

He succeeded Ijjauddin Balban Iuzbaki

Ijjauddin Balban Iuzbaki

Ijjauddin Balban-e-Iuzbaki is was the Governor of Bengal during 1257-1259 CE.-History:After the death of Malik Ikhtiyaruddin Iuzbak, Ijjauddin was appointed as the Governor of Bengal by the sultan of Delhi. Ijjauddin ruled Bengal for 2 years. He invaded south-eastern Bengal in 1259. During his...

 and built a tomb for his predecessor's remains, two years after his death. Tatar Khan was a very capable ruler, renowned for his bravery, liberality, heroism and honesty. He did not acknowledge allegiance to the sultan of Delhi, Nasiruddin

Nasir ud din Mahmud

Nasir ud din Mahmud, Nasir ud din Firuz Shah was the eighth sultan of the Mamluk Sultanate . He was the youngest son of Shams ud din Iltutmish , and he succeeded Ala ud din Masud after the chiefs replaced Masud when they felt that he began to behave as a tyrant.As a ruler, Mahmud was known to be...

, who died in 1266. That year he sent his envoys to Sultan Ghiyasuddin Balban. This diplomatic mission from Bengal

Bengal

Bengal is a historical and geographical region in the northeast region of the Indian Subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal. Today, it is mainly divided between the sovereign land of People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal, although some regions of the previous...

 was accorded a royal reception at Delhi worthy of embassies from Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

 or Turan

Turan

Tūrān is the Persian name for Central Asia, literally meaning "the land of the Tur". As described below, the original Turanians are an Iranian tribe of the Avestan age. As a people the "Turanian" are one of the two Iranian peoples both descending from the Persian Fereydun but with different...

. The envoys of Tatar Khan were loaded with valuable gifts and given leave of departure. Muhammad Tatar Khan died in independence two years after Balban's accession.