History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c10.183

c10.183

This is a very odd phase of Muhammad bin Tughluq's progressive thought . . . Though all this feeling may well have arisen out of new and more advanced studies of his own religion, or description by the Western visitors at his own court of the bygone glories of the supreme pontiffs of the Muslim world, who had more or less swayed the destinies of the East for five centuries, and whose extermination was so intimately associated with one of India's perpetual grievances, the success of the Mughals, who were ever threatening the gates of Dihli.'