History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c7.135

c7.135

Thus within a few years the Sultan exercised sway over the remotest provinces of India excepting a small portion of the Deccan which, though it did not definitely acknowledge his over-lordship, never challenged his claim as the sovereign power in the land. Bengal was a part of the empire, and for the last ten years its governors had been the creatures of the rulers of Dihli. Malwa, Dhar, Ujjain, Karauli⁶⁵ with the adjoining fiefs of Mahoba, Dalmau accepted the vassalage of Dihli and paid tribute. Though Firishta is guilty of exaggeration when he says that the distant provinces ' were as effectually incorporated with the empire as the villages in the vicinity of Dihli, it is nevertheless true that in every province a vigorous administration was introduced and the imperial authority was fully maintained.⁶⁶ Barani speaks of the regularity with which tribute was paid in the early part of the reign.⁶⁷ All elements of disorder were suppressed, and it seemed that an era of peace and orderly government had begun. But destiny decreed otherwise, and the grand projects of the Sultan ended in nothing.