Malik Ikhtiyār ad-Dīn Yūzbak ( fa, ملک اختیار الدین یوزبک), and later Mughith ad-Din Abu al-Muzaffar ( fa, مغیث الدین ابو المظفر) was the appointed as the Delhi Sultanate's Governor of

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from 1251 CE to 1255 CE. He became an independent Sultan of North Bengal from 1255 CE to 1257 CE.

As governor

Yuzbak was appointed Governor of

after

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was unable to defeat the forces delegated by Emperor Narasingha Deva I of

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for four years. In 1254, he invaded the Azmardan Raj (present-day Ajmiriganj) in northeast Bengal and managed to defeat the local Raja. In 1255, Yuzbak succeeded in repulsing Emperor Narasingha's forces, led by the emperor's son-in-law Savantar, away from south-western

. After capturing

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in western Bengal, Yuzbak fixed the border between the two empires at the Damodar River.

As independent Sultan

Following the recapture of Mandaran and southwestern Bengal, he signed a treaty of alliance with Narasingha and declared himself independent of the Delhi Sultanate. He styled himself as Sultan Mughithuddin Abul Muzaffar Iuzbak and struck coins in his own name. As an independent Sultan, Yuzbak had control over much of northern and northwestern Bengal with his capital in Lakhnauti. By 1256, he captured

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and Awadh from Delhi rule with his own army and war-boats, thus extending his powerful domain.

Defeat

In 1257, Yuzbak commenced an expedition to the Kamrup region and Koch Hajo, both in present-day

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. There, Yuzbak and his forces were faced by the battalion of Sandhya, the erstwhile Rai of Kamrup in Kamarupanagara. With the help of the seasonal spring floods, Sandhya defeated and captured Yuzbak and had him executed in due course. Following the execution, Yuzbak's domain was split into two with Narasimhadeva I of

breaking the alliance and taking over the areas he had lost. Yuzbak's fellow tribesman,

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, succeeded him as Governor of Bengal for the Delhi Sultanate.

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As governor

As independent Sultan

Defeat

See also

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