Muslim Slave System in Medieval India c12.26

c12.26

Under Firoz Tughlaq (1351-88) there were thirty six Karkhanas *directly under the Sultan.* In these were manufactured and stored articles of gold and silver and brass and other metals, textiles, wines, perfumes, armours, weapons, horse and camel saddles and covers of elephants, leather goods and clothes. But the Karkhanas also looked after the elephant, horse and camel stables, the kitchen, the butlery, the candle department, the dog-kennels, the water-cooling department and other establishments the wardrobe, the *Alam-khana* or insignia, the carpet stores, and the like About two lakhs of tankahs were expended in the carpet department, and 80,000 *tankahs* on the Alam Khana.⁵⁵ Each of these departments was under the charge of a senior Amir or Khan and lakhs of *tankahs* were sanctioned as recurring and non-recurring expenditure for each of the Karkhanas.