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Examine the significance of Alauddin Khalji’s administrative reforms. Was he really successful in implementing these measures?

  • UPSC 1993
  • The Fourteenth Century

Alauddin Khalji's accession in 1296 opened the most concentrated phase of institutional experimentation the Delhi Sultanate had yet witnessed. Unlike Jalaluddin's benevolence-based kingship, Alauddin fashioned a theory of rule resting on unchallenged royal prerogative, telling Qazi Mughisuddin that he decreed whatever the state's welfare required, sharia notwithstanding. His administrative reforms — apart from the celebrated…

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