The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.407

v3.c20.407

Discontent now manifested itself among a very different class of Muhammad’s subjects. It was three years since he had compelled his courtiers to transfer their families to Daulatābād, and he had already been absent for two years and a half from his new capital. Those in attendance on him began to murmur that they might as well have been permitted to keep their families at Delhi if they themselves were to be compelled to live there, but Muhammad was probably obeying his own impulse rather than their importunity when he returned, in 1330, to Daulatābād.