Twilight of the Sultanate c12.s2.50

c12.s2.50

In these circumstances the Saiyyads could make no positive contribution to kingship⁹⁰ or to the system of civil administration, which had not been checked up or improved upon for the last fifty years. We hardly hear of any civil or revenue officials during this period and revenue could be collected only through military operations. During the last days of the Saiyyad rule, their kingdom disintegrated rapidly and even cities and districts became independent. Bahlūl, the first ruler of the Lodī dynasty, had to begin the process of empire building all afresh, to bring under his sway district after district and even to create a new theory of kingship.