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Write brief essay: Experiments of Mohammad Tughluq

  • UPSC 2003
  • The Fourteenth Century

Muhammad bin Tughluq (r. 1325-51) remains the most intellectually striking and administratively erratic ruler of the Delhi Sultanate — a monarch whom contemporaries and later historians alike have struggled to characterise without resorting to paradox. Trained in logic, astronomy, medicine and Persian letters, and determined to standardise and rationalise imperial governance through repeated manshurs (decrees),…

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