Kamal al-Din Gurg

After other generals of Alauddin failed to capture the Siwana fort in the preceding years, in 1308, he personally led an expedition to Siwana. Kamal al-Din accompanied Alauddin in this campaign, and held charge of the siege engines (munjaniqs).^[2] After the Delhi army captured the fort, it was renamed Khayrabad, and assigned to Kamal al-Din.^[3]

In 1311, Alauddin sent an army to capture Siwana's neighbour Jalore. After his other generals failed to capture the fort, he dispatched Kamal al-Din to conquer it.^[4] Kamalauddin captured the fort after a siege that resulted in the deaths of the defending ruler Kanhadadeva and his son Viramadeva.^[5] After this victory, Kamal al-Din held the iqta' of Jalor.^[6]

During the last days of Alauddin's reign, Kamal al-Din allied with Alauddin's slave-general Malik Kafur, who held the executive power during Alauddin's sickness. The two men were probably part of a group of non-Khalaj officers that tried to seize power from the Khalaj establishment of the Sultanate. According to the chronicler Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi, in 1315, Kamal al-Din participated in Malik Kafur's murder of Alp Khan, an influential rival nobleman, the governor of Gujarat and Alauddin's brother in-law. Alp Khan had been accused of conspiring to kill Alauddin, but this might have been Kafur's propaganda.^[7]

The news of Alp Khan's murder led to a revolt in Gujarat, and Kafur sent Kamal al-Din to suppress the revolt.^[1] Kamal al-Din was killed in late 1315 or early 1316 in Gujarat, during a military operation.^[6] His son Taj al-Din Hushang (or Hoshang) inherited the 'iqta of Jalor,^[1] and later served as the muqta (provincial governor) of Hansi.^[8]