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Malik Kafur
Malik Kafur was a general of Alauddin Khalji, sultan of Delhi, in the early fourteenth century. He led the sultanate's most spectacular campaigns into southern India, extracting tribute from the Hoysala kingdom and sacking the Pandya treasury at Madurai. By 1311 nearly every major southern Indian power had submitted to the Delhi Sultanate.
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