Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c5.s3.16

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c5.s3.16

⁵ Compare the proud remark of Sultan Balban that he never addressed a person of low birth on terms of familiarity all his life as a king. His own slaves and attendants had never seen him except in full dress—B., 33; compare also his advice to his son Muhammad, *ibid.*, 75; compare *ibid.*, 142 for the remarks of Bughra Khan in defence of the royal dignity of his own son and the etiquette of the court. Compare Raverty, 805, for an amusing story of the tutor of prince who subjected his royal pupil to the same undignified

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