Question
Write a short note on Muhammad Tughluq’s administration.
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Answer
Muhammad Tughluq’s administration:
- The Sultanate was attacked in the early years of Muhammad Tughluq’s reign. He therefore raised a large standing army.
- Rather than constructing a new garrison town, the oldest of the four cities of Delhi (Dehli-i Kuhna) was emptied of its residents and the soldiers garrisoned there. The residents of the old city were sent to the new capital of Daulatabad in the south.
- Produce from the same area was collected as tax to feed the army. But to meet the need of the large number of soldiers the Sultan levied additional taxes.
- Muhammad Tughluq also paid his soldiers cash salaries. He introduced “token” currency, made out of cheap metals. People in the fourteenth century did not trust these coins. They saved their gold and silver coins and paid all their taxes to the state with this token currency. This cheap currency could also be counterfeited easily.
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