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Comment in about 200 words: Balban’s theory of kingship

  • UPSC 1995
  • The Thirteenth Century

Kingship for Balban was not a matter of custom or consensus among the nobility but an absolute, God-derived office standing above every other authority in the realm, including the very Turkish slave-elite from whose ranks he himself had risen. His theory answered a specific problem: a sultan without an ancient royal lineage or an unassailable…

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