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Muhammad Bin Tughlaq’s contradictory qualities were beyond the grasp knowledge and common sense. Evaluate the significance of his administrative measures and policies in the light of this statement

  • UPSC 1992
  • The Fourteenth Century

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Few rulers of the Delhi Sultanate present so sharp a paradox as Muhammad bin Tughluq: a genuinely learned, philosophically-minded sovereign — fluent in logic, mathematics, medicine, and Persian and Hindi poetry — whose theoretically well-grounded policies collapsed, one after another, under the weight of catastrophic execution. Stanley Lane-Poole's verdict, echoed in the statement under discussion,…

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