The Puffin History of India, Volume 1 by Roshen Dalal

Author:Roshen Dalal [Roshen Dalal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789351186144
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2014-01-23T00:00:00+00:00

No unity

In the north and in the south, these small states were constantly fighting with each other and with the Delhi sultans who tried to bring them under their power.Within these states there were feudatories who were semi-independent. Because there was no sense of unity, it was easy for invaders to come from outside.

Marco Polo

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Life at the Time of the Sultanate—AD 1200–1500

The sultans

The sultans lived in great splendour. When the sultan went out, a special umbrella was held over him. A band of musicians followed. Ibn Battutah, who was from Tangiers in north Africa, visited India and described the conditions in the fourteenth century. He said that Muhammad Tughlaq’s court had a huge hall supported by 1000 polished wooden pillars. Gold, silver, expensive embroidered cloth and jewels were used by the sultan and the royal household. A single pair of shoes for the sultan Firuz Tughlaq, was bought for 70,000 tankas when an ordinary family with two children could live on five tankas for a whole month. A tanka was a silver coin, the old form of the rupee.

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