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Do you agree that the schemes of Muhammad bin Tughluq were correctly conceived, badly executed and disastrously abandoned? Discuss.

  • UPSC 2017
  • The Fourteenth Century

Muhammad bin Tughluq's reign (1325–1351) is the standard case study in Sultanate historiography for the gap between administrative vision and administrative delivery. The three-part formula in the question — sound conception, flawed execution, ruinous abandonment — is not merely a rhetorical device; it maps precisely onto each of his four major projects when examined individually.…

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