Kingmaker Killed: Three Strikes Against a Brilliant Commander
Despite multiple disadvantages—Hindu-born, castrated, non-Turkish, and legally a slave—Kafur became Alauddin’s most trusted general. When Alauddin grew sick, Kafur effectively ran the Sultanate. After the Sultan died in 1316, Kafur briefly seized power by installing the Sultan’s six-year-old son as a puppet. Other nobles assassinated him after just 35 days of rule. They couldn’t accept being governed by someone they saw as inferior in three ways: slave, eunuch, and convert.
