History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c12.138

c12.138

The author of the *Masālik* and Ibn Batūṭah both speak of the easy accessibility of the Sultan and his desire to give even the meanest of his subjects an opportunity of laying his case before him. Khojandi informed Shihāb-al-Dīn that in his public *durbār* which the Sultan held every Tuesday, surrounded by his nobles, judges and other officers of state, he gave a general permission to the people to lay their grievances before him. Petitions were presented to him and his orders were recorded by the *Dabīrs* or secretaries.