History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c8.48

c8.48

²² Ibn Batūṭah in the earlier part of his work speaks of Dihli as a magnificent and well-populated city, and in another place in describing the depopulation of Dihli by the Sultan he says that he saw the marks of desolation and that when he reached Dihli the Sultan was repeopling it. The first description applies to Dihli as he left it in 1342 A.D. The second description occurs in his account of the evacuation of Dihli where he makes the deliberate statement that when he entered the city he found that the Sultan was making efforts to repeople it.