How is Giyasuddin Balbans role is important in strengthening the empire
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Ghiyas ud din Balban (reigned: 1266–1287) (Urdu: غیاث الدین بلبن); (Hindi: ग़ियास उद-दीन बलबन Ghiyās ud-Dīn Balban) was the ninth sultan of the Mamluk dynasty of Delhi.
Ghiyas ud din Balban
Sultan of Delhi's Empire
Sultan Ghayas-ud-Din Balban.jpg
Reign
1266–1287
Predecessor
Nasiruddin Mahmud
Successor
Muiz ud din Qaiqabad (grandson)
Born
1216
Died
1287
Burial
Tomb of Balban, Mehrauli Archaeological Park, Delhi
Issue
Muhammad Khan
Nasiruddin Bughra Khan
Ghiyas ud Din was the regent of the last Shamsi sultan, Nasiruddin Mahmud. He reduced the power of the nobility and heightened the stature of the sultan.
His original name was Baha Ud Din. He was an Ilbari Turk. When he was young he was captured by the Mongols, taken to Ghazni and sold to Khawaja Jamal ud-din of Basra, a Sufi. The latter then brought him to Delhi in 1232 along with other slaves, and all of them were purchased by Iltutmish.
Balban belonged to the famous group of 40 Turkic slaves of Iltutmish.[1]
Ghiyas made several conquests, some of them as vizier. He routed the Mewats that harassed Delhi and reconquered Bengal, all while successfully facing the Mongol threat, a struggle that cost his son and heir's life. After his death in 1287, his grandson Qaiqabad was nominated sultan, though his rule undermined the success made under his grandfather's reign.
In spite of having only a few military achievements, Balban reformed civil and military lines that earned him a stable and prosperous government granting him the position, along with Shams ud-din Iltutmish and the later Alauddin Khalji, of the one of the most powerful sultans of Delhi Sultanate.