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Give an estimate of Ghiasuddin Balban

  • UPSC 1996
  • The Thirteenth Century

An estimate of Ghiyasuddin Balban must hold two facts in tension: he was, by near-universal historiographical consent, one of the principal architects of the Delhi Sultanate as a durable institution, and yet he built that institution on foundations narrow enough that it barely outlived him. Judging him fairly means separating what he actually achieved from…

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