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Sultan Qutb-ud-din Aibak, the Turkic Emperor of North India, ruled as an emperor for only four years, from 1206 to 1210 but died accidentally in 1210 playing polo.

While he was playing a game of polo on horseback ( also called chougan in Persia ), his horse fell and Aibak was impaled on the pommel of his saddle.

He was buried near the Anarkali bazaar in Lahore ( which is now in Pakistan ).

Aibak's son Aram, died in 1211 CE, so Shams-ud-din Iltutmish, another ex-slave of Turkic ancestry who was married to Aibak's daughter, succeeded him as Sultan of Delhi.