History of the Khaljis, A.D. 1290–1320 c15.2

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‘Alāuddīn was perhaps the first sovereign of the Turkish line to have taken a keen interest in fiscal and revenue reforms. His predecessors from Quṭbuddīn Aibak to Jalāluddīn Khaljī either did not get the time, or did not possess the initiative to delve into this complicated branch of administration. They had utilized the existing machinery.¹ At least such is the conclusion to which the silence of Minhājus Sirāj and Ziyāuddīn points. Of these two writers the latter was certainly interested in agrarian problems even though superficially.