The Khalji dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate was of Turkic ethnicity and had fought several wars against the Mongol invaders from Central Asia.
In 1292, the Delhi Sultan Jalaluddin Khalji had permitted several thousand Mongols to settle in his empire after they converted to Islam.
[2] Several of them served in the Delhi army, and during the 1299 Gujarat campaign of Jalaluddin's successor Alauddin, some of them had staged an unsuccessful mutiny.
[4] His administration had greatly reduced salaries and inams (feudal land grants) of the Mongol amirs, and some of them had lost their employment.
Alauddin then issued a confidential order, instructing his royal officers to kill all the Mongol men in his empire on a specified day.
[6] A manuscript of Barani's Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi states that Alauddin's order was to kill the New Muslims who held jagirs (feudal land grants).