![]() ![]() Thus on both the occasions, his brothers proved her enemies. Later, when Raziya began to show signs of power, they plotted against her and made her another brother Bahram Shah sit on the throne. First of all, Ruknuddin Firoz violating the will of his father and the claim of her sister was enthroned by the powerful forty slaves. The brothers of Raziya and other members of her family were not cooperative. Thomas Roe has also written, “It was not that a virgin queen was forbidden to love-she might have indulged herself in submissive Prince Consort or reveled almost unchecked in the dark recesses of the palace Harem but wayward fancy pointed in a wrong direction and led her to prefer a person employed in her court, an Abyssinian, moreover, the favours extended to whom, the Turkish nobles resented with one accord.” Family Discord: Thus the only weakness that made her downfall inevitable was her sex and even the best of her talents and virtues were insufficient to protect her from that single weakness. Her Turkish opponents, who failed to crush her, resorted to her character assassination. Minhaj-us-Siraj states that considerable familiarity existed between them so much so that when she rode, he always lifted her off the horse by raising her up under the arms. Perhaps it was the result of her state policy by which she wanted to crush the monopoly of the Turkish nobles but some of her critics remarked that she had actually fallen in love with Yakut. Ibn Batuta writes that her fondness for the slave Yakut was criminal. It was not approved by the staunch Muslims, They began to condemn and criticize her for it and she being a woman could not face their criticism. ![]() She cast off her female attire and gave up Pardah. ![]() She had all kindly qualities except sex.” “Sultan Raziya was a great monarch, wise, just, generous, benefactor to her realm, a dispenser of equity, the protector of her people, leader of her army. The greatest weakness of Raziya was her sex. The slave officers could not tolerate her behaviour and began to hatch conspiracy against her which ultimately resulted in her downfall. ![]() When Raziya ascended the throne they wished her to dance to their tune but she was not prepared to be a puppet in the hands of slave officers. He had organized this group in order to strengthen the kingdom but after his death its members became king-makers and they enthroned Ruknuddin in place of Raziya violating the will of their master as they were not prepared to bow down before a woman. The chief reason of the downfall of Raziya was the opposition of the Turkish slaves of Iltutmish. ![]()
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