About the Book: Invaders and Infidels Book 2
'When QUTUBUDDIN AIBAK died in a polo game 1210, he had left behind a rickety,
fledgling Muslim kingdom in Delhi. For the next eightyodd years, its fortunes
swayed wildly, witnessing a record twelve kings. It was a period of incessant
palace coups and serial political murders. The death of Balban extinguishes the
socalled Muslim Slave dynasty and with it ends the shortlived Turkic Muslim
imperialism. It also heralds the ascent of the Afghanistanbased Khaljis, classed
as "lowborn." A straight line connects the origin of the Khaljis with the
military airport built by the US in Zabul in 2006. By