Twilight of the Sultanate c6.s1.13

c6.s1.13

⁸ The Amīrān-i-Sadah find mention in the Tughlaq times. These officers seem to have combined civil and military functions. They collected revenue and each had one hundred men under his command. They were Indians as well as foreigners—neo-Muslims or Mongol converts, Turks and Afghans. Like all medieval adventurers they were ever ready to profit by the difficulties of the Sultanate, and their rebellions were a chronic feature of the Tughlaq times. T.F.S. (B), 495; T.A., I, 215; Bayley: *Gujarat*, 43. Also Ind. Ant., XXVIII, 142; Ishwari Prasad, *Qaraunah Turks*, 208-9 n.