Twilight of the Sultanate c6.s1.1

c6.s1.1

The process of political disintegration had commenced during the reign of Fīrōz Tughlaq himself (1351-1388). He failed to reclaim the Deccan and frittered away his energies in fruitless campaigns in far-off regions—Orissa, Nagarkot and Thatta—without being able to add a patch of territory to his shrunken empire. His revival of the Jāgīrs and enrolment of an army of slaves destroyed the merits of the reforms of the Khaljīs and strengthened the forces of disorder. In his zeal for piety he lightened punishments and thereby encouraged corruption in administration and inefficiency in the army.¹