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Examine the responsibility of Firoz Tughluq for the fall of his dynasty

  • UPSC 1985
  • The Fourteenth Century

The decline of the Delhi Sultanate is often treated as a structural inevitability — an overextended empire, an unstable iqta system, a recurring succession crisis built into the office of the Sultan itself. Yet Firoz Tughluq's thirty-seven-year reign (1351-1388) shows how far an individual ruler's specific choices could convert latent structural weakness into near-immediate collapse:…

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  • The Slave Corps: A Standing Liability Disguised as Strength
  • Hereditary Iqtas and the Erosion of Central Revenue Control
  • Religious Orthodoxy and the Narrowing of the Social Base
  • Failure to Settle the Succession

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