Muhammad of Ghor's succession troubles

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The Ghurid sultan, having conquered northern India, now faced revolts in Khurasan and plots in his own household. He would be assassinated three years later by an Ismaili dagger on the banks of the Indus. His slave-generals would parcel out his Indian conquests into what became the Delhi Sultanate. The fragmentation of Ghurid power produced a generation of former slaves who ruled as independent sultans, a pattern unique to Islamic political history.