The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India: A History of the Establishment and Progress of the Turkish Sultanate of Delhi, 1206–1290 A.D. c11.89
The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India: A History of the Establishment and Progress of the Turkish Sultanate of Delhi, 1206–1290 A.D. c11.89
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This impending change was apparent to all his contemporaries. "Every upstart" said the *kotwal*, while delivering the funeral oration as Balban’s coffin was being lowered into the grave, "will now aspire to the throne and ancient families and the old aristocracy will be for ever ruined"¹. This change, surely as it was coming, was hastened by the new reign surveyed in the next chapter.