The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.391

v3.c20.391

Besides officers of state and courtiers numbers of tradesmen and others who gained their livelihood by serving or supplying the court followed it to Daulatābād, and encouragement was given to any who could be persuaded voluntarily to transfer their domicile to the new capital, but the steps taken in this year must not be confounded, as some historians have confounded them, with those adopted two years later, when the whole of the population of Delhi was transported, as a punitive, not an administrative measure, to Daulatābād.