Multiple choice

Who among the following destroyed the group of forty nobles?

  1. Baharam Shah

  2. Iltimish

  3. Sultana Razia

  4. Balban

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D Correct answer
Explanation

Balban, the Sultan of Delhi (1266-1287), systematically destroyed the powerful Turkan-e-Chihalgani (Group of Forty) nobles who had become kingmakers and a threat to the throne. He eliminated them through executions, exile, and administrative reforms to centralize power. Iltumish had created this group, Razia tried to control them and was killed, and Baharam Shah was a later ruler.