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‘The policy of creating heterogeneous nobility by Muhammad Tughluq started the process of disintegration of Delhi Sultanate’. Explain

  • UPSC 2018
  • The Fourteenth Century

Muhammad bin Tughluq's deliberate dismantling of the old Turkish-aristocratic monopoly on high office was, by the standards of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Delhi, a genuinely radical experiment in composite governance. He elevated men on the basis of talent and personal loyalty rather than lineage, ethnicity, or religious status — a policy that widened the social base…

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  • The Mechanism: What "Heterogeneous Nobility" Actually Meant
  • How This Genuinely Destabilised the Centre
  • The Fairer Reading: A Coherent, Even Meritocratic, Vision
  • Assessing the Causal Claim

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