As Modi ascends the throne of Delhi on Monday,it is interesting to note that he is the third Gujarathi to do so.
Before him was Moraji Desai who became the Prime Minister of India in 1977.
But the first Gujju to sit on the throne of Delhi was in 1320.His name was Parmar alias Khusro Khan
Parmar was a native of the Bawariya region of Saurashtra in Gujarat, India.
In 1297, Alauddin Khilji sent an army under the command of Ulugh Khan and Nusrat Khan to plunder Gujarat. They first captured Patan by defeating the last Hindu ruler Karan Vaghela, then reached the Somanath temple in Saurashtra. Parmar was captured, converted to Islam and enslaved. Known as ‘Hasan,’ he was subsequently given the title Khusro Khan by Mubarak. As a favorite of Mubarak, he led armies to the south. The historian Farishtah writes about Mubarak’s homosexual relations with Khusro Khan and also that Khusro Khan was a shemale.
In 1320 Khusro Khan managed to kill Alauddin Khilji’s son, Qutb ud din Mubarak Shah, ending the Khilji dynasty. He captured the throne of Delhi and held it for four months, after which he was defeated and killed by Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq, who founded the Tughlaq dynasty in 1320 in Delhi.-from Wikipedia
