Nasir-ud-Din Qubacha was a slave-general of Muhammad of Ghor who seized control of Sindh and southern Punjab after his master's assassination in 1206, ruling as an effectively independent sultan while nominally acknowledging Delhi. His ambitions ended badly: pressed by Iltutmish of Delhi from the east and the Mongol advance from the northwest, Qubacha drowned in the Indus in 1228 — whether by accident or desperation remains disputed by the sources. Coinage from his quarter-century of rule is the primary material record of his administration, Sindh having left few standing monuments from this period.
Nasir-ud-Din Qubacha was a slave-general of Muhammad of Ghor who seized control of Sindh and southern Punjab after his master's assassination in 1206, ruling as an effectively independent sultan while nominally acknowledging Delhi. His ambitions ended badly: pressed by Iltutmish of Delhi from the east and the Mongol advance from the northwest, Qubacha drowned in the Indus in 1228 — whether by accident or desperation remains disputed by the sources. Coinage from his quarter-century of rule is the primary material record of his administration, Sindh having left few standing monuments from this period.