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Evaluate Firuz Shah Tughluq’s economic policies.
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- The Fourteenth Century
Firuz Shah Tughluq (r. 1351–1388) succeeded to a treasury and countryside exhausted by Muhammad bin Tughluq's failed token-currency experiment, punitive Doab taxation and administrative overreach. Where his predecessor had governed through bold, centrally-driven experimentation, Firuz Shah pursued a deliberately conservative, welfare-oriented economic programme built on irrigation expansion, tax relief and a vast state-run manufacturing establishment.…
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- Canal-Building and Irrigation Expansion
- Tax Reduction and the Shara-Based Reform
- The Karkhana System: An Economic Institution Without Precedent
- Welfare Apparatus and Its Limits
- Evaluation: Durable Gains against Long-Run Fiscal Liability
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