[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.haig-1928) › v3.c20.352 # The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.352 The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.352 - **Language:** English ### [v3.c20.352](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.haig-1928.v3.c20.352) The security and order which reigned in the kingdom within a short time of his accession were due hardly less to his admirable system of communications than to his other measures of administrative reform. Postal systems had from time immemorial existed in India, but during recurring periods of disorder, such as Khusrav’s reign, shared the general disintegration of all administrative machinery, and Tughluq may be credited with the inauguration of the perfect system found existing in the reign of his son and successor, and minutely described by the Moorish traveller, Ibn Batūtah. - [Previous: v3.c20.351](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.haig-1928.v3.c20.351) - [Next: v3.c20.353](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.haig-1928.v3.c20.353) - [Up: v3.c20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.haig-1928.v3.c20) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.haig-1928.v3.c20.352](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.haig-1928.v3.c20.352) · Pramāṇa