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The rise of Khaljis to power in 1290 brought important changes in the political structure of Delhi Sultanate which had its explicit impact on the composition of the ruling elite of the state and sought support from Turkish as well as Indians to occupy the throne. They did not give precedence to lineage in the army and did not make it a criterion for the appointment. One of the leading nobles of Alauddin Khalji’s period was undoubtedly the slave named Malik Kafur whom Barani has put under the third category of nobles who brought destination of the Alai government. However, contemporary chroniclers like Barani and Amir Khusrau have not mentioned his early life and career, but Isami has traced him as of Mathura descent who spent his young age as a slave of a wealthy merchant of Khambayat, Gujarat. He was a Hindu convert in the service of Khawaja of Khambayat. However, Barani has mentioned that during the third year of Alauddin’s reign, he nominated his two generals namely Nusrat Khan and Ulugh Khan for the expedition of Gujarat. They ransacked the entire territories of Gujarat and brought much valuable treasures, which included elephants, women and daughters who fell into the hands of Muslim army. Nusrat Khan went to Khambayat, forcibly took large sums of money, gems and other valuables from the merchants and also forcibly took Malik Kafur Hazardinari.