Muhammad bin Tughluq (Arabic: محمد بن تغلق) (c. The Tughlaq Dynasty ( Urdu: تغلق) of north India started in 1321 in Delhi when Ghazi Tughlaq assumed the throne under the Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language 1300– 1351) also Prince Juna Khan was the Sultan of Delhi from 1325 to 1351. The Delhi Sultanate ( Urdu: دلی سلطنت, दिल्ली सलतनत or Sultanat e Hind ( سلطنتِ هند; सलतनत ए He was the eldest son of Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq. Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq (غیاث الدین تغلق (real name Ghazi Malik; died in 1325 founder and first ruler (1320&ndash25 of the Turkish Muslim Ghiyath al-din sent the young Muhammad to the Deccan to campaign against the Kakatiya dynasty king Prataparudra of Warangal. The Kakatiya dynasty was a South Indian Dynasty that ruled parts of what is now Andhra Pradesh, India from 1083CE to 1323CE WikipediaWikiProject Indian cities for details --> Warangal or Orugallu or Ekasila Nagaram (వరంగల్ is a city and a He succeeded to the Delhi throne after his father's death in 1325.
Muhammad Tughluq was a great scholar and a learned man. He knew logic, philosophy, mathematics, astronomy and physical sciences. He was a brilliant calligraphist. He had knowledge of medicine and was skilful in dialectics. [1]
Muhammad Tughluq has been described as an "amazing compound of contradictions". He is one of the most striking figures in medieval India. He was a man with ideas far beyond his age. [2]
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Tughluq was committed to maintaining the Sultanate's expansion into the newly-conquered provinces of peninsular India. South India is the area encompassing India 's states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as the union To have better administration of these southern parts of the Empire, in the early part of his reign Tughluq moved the capital from Delhi to Devagiri, 700 miles south in the Deccan, renaming Devagiri as Daulatabad. Delhi (दिल्ली ਦਿੱਲੀ دلی d̪ɪlːiː sometimes referred to as Dilli) is the second largest metropolis of India, with a population Fort of Devagiri The area of the city includes the hill-fortress of Devagiri ( Marathi देवगिरी (sometimes Latinised to Deogiri Fort of Devagiri The area of the city includes the hill-fortress of Devagiri ( Marathi देवगिरी (sometimes Latinised to Deogiri Instead of moving just his government offices there, he forcibily moved the entire population of Delhi to the new capital. The plan failed due to inadequate water supply arrangements in Daulatabad; after only two years, the capital had to be shifted back again to Delhi. Large numbers of people died during the moves due to the inadequate travel arrangements. It was said that Delhi was a ghost town for years after the move back. "When I entered Dehli, it was almost like a desert", wrote the North African traveller ibn Batuta. Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Abdullah Al Lawati Al Tanji Ibn Battuta (أبو عبد الله محمد ابن عبد الله اللواتي الطنجي بن بطوطة (born February
Tughluq also introduced token currency for the first time in India, modelled after the Chinese example, using brass or copper coins, backed by silver and gold kept in the treasury. Brass is any Alloy of Copper and Zinc; the proportions of zinc and copper can be varied to create a range of brasses with varying properties Copper (ˈkɒpɚ is a Chemical element with the symbol Cu (cuprum and Atomic number 29 However, very few people exchanged their gold/silver coins for the new copper ones and the tokens were easy to forge, which led to heavy losses. It is said that after the plan failed, there were heaps of copper coins lying around the royal offices for years.
It is widely believed that Tughluq may have been planning the invasion of Persia and China. Such grandiose, unsuccessful policy experiments made Muhammad notorious in the minds of many of his contemporaries.
Muhammad bin Tughluq died while campaigning in Sind. Sindh ( Sindhī: سنڌ Urdu: سندھ is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhis. He was succeeded by his cousin Firuz Shah Tughluq. Firuz Shah Tughlaq (also known as Firoz Shah Tughluq ( 1309 - 1388 in Delhi) was a Muslim ruler of the Tughlaq Dynasty from 1351
Collapse of the Empire
Tughlug lived to see the empire fall apart. During the latter years of his reign new kingdoms broke away in the Deccan, such as the Bahmani kingdom founded by Hasan Gangu. The Bahmani Sultanate (Also called the Bahmanid Empire was a Muslim state of the Deccan in southern India and one of the great medieval Indian kingdoms Abu'l Muzaffar Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah (r August 3 1347 - 1358 whose original name was Hasan Gangu or Hansan Kanku and also bore the title of Zafar Khan [3]
Experiments with Coins
Muhammad Bin Tughlaq is known for his active interest in experimenting with the coinage. He implanted his character and activities on his coinage and produced abundant gold coins compared to any of his predecessors. He overtook them by executing a fine calligraphy and by issuing number of fractional denominations. Calligraphy (from Greek kallos "beauty" + graphẽ "writing" is the art of writing (Mediavilla 1996 17 An experiment with his forced currency places him in the rank of one of the greatest moneyers of Indian history though it wasn't successful in India.
The large influx of gold due to his southern Indian campaign made him to adjust the weight standard of coinage which was in usage all the while. He added the gold dinar of weight 202 grains while compared to the then standard weight of 172 grains. The Dinar is the name of the official currency in several countries The silver adlis weighed 144 grains weight and was his innovation aiming to adjust the commercial value of the metal with respect to gold. Seven years later, he discontinued it due to lack of popularity and acceptance among his subjects.
All his coins reflect a staunch orthodoxy. The coins stuck at both Delhi and Daulatabad, were curious and was issued in memory of his late father. The Kalima appeared in most of his coinage, the title engraved were "The warrior in the cause of God", "The trustier in support of the four Khalifs - Abubakkar, Umar, Usman and Ali". He minted coins in several places such as Delhi, Lakhnauti, Salgaun, Darul-I-Islam, Sultanpur (Warrangal), Tughlaqpur (Tirhut), Daulatabad(Devagiri), Mulk-I-Tilang etc. Delhi (दिल्ली ਦਿੱਲੀ دلی d̪ɪlːiː sometimes referred to as Dilli) is the second largest metropolis of India, with a population Fort of Devagiri The area of the city includes the hill-fortress of Devagiri ( Marathi देवगिरी (sometimes Latinised to Deogiri , More than thirty varieties of billon coins are known so far, and the types show his numismatic interests. The copper coins are not as fascinating as the billon and gold coinage, and many were minted in a variety of fabrics.
Unique among his coinage was the "forced currency". Tughluq had two scalable versions, issued in Delhi and Daulatabad. The currency obeyed two different standards, probably to satisfy the local standard which preexisted in the North and in the South respectively. Tughluq's skill in forcing the two standards of currency is remarkable. He engraved "He who obeys the Sultan obeys the compassionate" to fascinate people in accepting the new coinage. Inscriptions were even engraved in the Nagari legend, but owing to the alloy used, the coinage underwent deterioration. As well, the Copper and Brass coins could easily be forged, turning every house into a mint. Tughluq subsequently withdrew the forged currency by exchanging it with bullion and gold.
Popular References
- Mohammad bin Tughlaq is a socio-political satire Tamil play written and first staged by Cho Ramaswamy in 1968. Cho Ramaswamy ( Tamil: சோ ராமசாமி born October 5 1934 is an actor, Playwright, Columnist
- Muhammad bin Tughlaq is the central character in Tughlaq: a play in thirteen scenes, by Girish Karnad published in 1972. Girish Raghunath Karnad (ಗಿರೀಶ್ ರಘುನಾಥ ಕಾರ್ನಾಡ್ (born 19 May 1938) is a contemporary Writer, Playwright [4]
Notes
- ^ Barani, Zia-ud-Din. Tarikh-I-firuz Shahi.
- ^ Lane Poole, Stanley (1903). Medieval India under Mohammedan Rule. G. P Putnam's Sons.
- ^ Verma, D. C. History of Bijapur (New Delhi: Kumar Brothers, 1974) p. 1
- ^ Karnad, Girish Raghunath (1972) Tughlaq: a play in thirteen scenes Oxford University Press, Delhi, OCLC 1250554
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