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{{Infobox military person<br />
| name = Ali Beg<br />
| native_name = علی بیگ<br />
| native_name_lang = fa<br />
| birth_date = Unknown<br />
| death_date = 1305<br />
| death_place = [[Delhi]], [[Delhi Sultanate]]<br />
| death_cause = Executed by elephant trampling<br />
| allegiance = [[Chagatai Khanate]]<br />
| serviceyears = {{circa|1300–1305}}<br />
| rank = [[Amir]] (commander)<br />
| commands = Chagatai invasion force (1305)<br />
| battles = {{tree list}}<br />
* [[Mongol invasions of India]]<br />
** Battle of Amroha / Ravi River (1305)<br />
{{tree list/end}}<br />
| relations = Served under [[Duwa]] (Chagatai Khan)<br />
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| religion = [[Islam]]<br />
}}<br />
}}<br />
'''Ali Beg''' was a [[Mongol]] military commander (''[[amir]]'') of the [[Chagatai Khanate]] who led a major invasion of the [[Delhi Sultanate]] during the reign of [[Alauddin Khalji]]. In 1305, he and his co-commander Tartaq crossed the [[Indus River]] with a large army but were decisively defeated by Delhi's forces near [[Amroha]] (or the [[Ravi River]]). He was captured after the battle, Ali Beg was taken to [[Delhi]] and publicly executed by |elephant trampling. His campaign was the last major [[Mongol invasions of India|Mongol incursions into the Indian subcontinent]].<br />
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The Delhi chronicler [[Ziauddin Barani]] describes Ali Beg as a descendant of [[Genghis Khan]], but Ali Beg actually belonged to the [[Khongirad]] tribe. He was married to a [[Chinggisid]] princess, who was a descendant of Genghis Khan through [[Ögedei Khan]].{{sfn|Peter Jackson|2003|p=227}}<br />
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The Mongol commanders Ali Beg and Tartaq, who had surrendered, were presented before Alauddin with other Mongol prisoners. According to Amir Khusrau, Alauddin ordered some of the captives to be killed, and others to be imprisoned. However, Barani states that Alauddin ordered all captives to be killed by having them trampled under elephants' feet.{{sfn|Banarsi Prasad Saksena|1992|p=393}}<br />
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Amir Khusrau and another chronicler [[Isami (historian)|Isami]] state that Alauddin spared the lives of Ali Beg and Tartaq (probably because of their high ranks). According to Amir Khusrau, one of these commanders died "without any harm being done to him", and the other was "left alone". He ambiguously adds that Alauddin "was so successful in sport that he took their lives in one game after another".{{sfn|Lal|1950|p=170}} According to Isami, Alauddin made the two Mongol commanders ''[[emir|Amir]]s'' (officials with high status), and also gave each of them an India-born slave girl. Two months later, Tartaq started demanding answers about the fate of his army and his belongings, in a state of drunken stupor. As a result, Alauddin ordered him to be killed. Sometime later, Ali Beg was also killed because of "the evil in his heart".{{sfn|Banarsi Prasad Saksena|1992|p=393}}<br />
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Historian [[Peter Jackson (historian)|Peter Jackson]] speculates that Ali Beg and Tartaq might have been killed when a large number of Mongols in Delhi rebelled against Alauddin, prompting the Sultan to order a [[1311 massacre of Mongols in the Delhi Sultanate|massacre of all the Mongols]] in his empire.{{sfn|Peter Jackson|2003|p=174}}<br />
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Isami states that after being defeated and imprisoned, they had been recruited into Alauddin's service (probably because of their high ranks), but they were later killed on Alauddin's orders.{{sfn|Saksena|1992|p=393}}{{sfn|Lal|1950|p=170}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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* {{cite book |author=Peter Jackson |author-link=Peter Jackson (historian) |title=The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History |url= https://archive.org/details/delhisultanatepo0000jack/page/227/mode/1up?q=%22ali+beg%22 |year=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-54329-3}}<br />
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* {{cite book |author=Banarsi Prasad Saksena |author-link=Banarsi Prasad Saksena |editor-last2=Khaliq Ahmad Nizami |editor-link2=K. A. Nizami |chapter=The Khaljis: Alauddin Khalji |editor=Mohammad Habib |editor-link=Mohammad Habib |title=A Comprehensive History of India: The Delhi Sultanat (A.D. 1206-1526) |volume=5 |edition=Second |year=1992 |orig-year=1970 |publisher=The Indian History Congress / People's Publishing House |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_9cmAQAAMAAJ |oclc=31870180}}<br />
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* {{cite book |last=Saksena |first=Banarsi Prasad |author-link=Banarsi Prasad Saksena |chapter=The Khaljis: Alauddin Khalji |editor1-first=Mohammad |editor1-last=Habib |editor2-first=Khaliq Ahmad |editor2-last=Nizami |title=A Comprehensive History of India: The Delhi Sultanat (A.D. 1206-1526) |volume=5 |edition=Second |year=1992 |orig-year=1970 |publisher=[[Indian History Congress]] / [[People's Publishing House (India)|People's Publishing House]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_9cmAQAAMAAJ |oclc=31870180}}<br />
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* {{cite book |last=Lal |first=Kishori Saran |author-link=K. S. Lal |title=History of the Khaljis (1290-1320) |year=1950 |publisher=The Indian Press |location=Allahabad |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2XXqAQAACAAJ |oclc=685167335}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Mongol invasions of India]]<br />
* [[Battle of Amroha]]<br />
* [[Chagatai Khanate]]<br />
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[[Category:Generals of the Mongol Empire]]<br />
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[[Category:Indian military leaders]]<br />
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