The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehli c10.98

c10.98

This system was based on the conception of a monarch as the embodiment of benevolent vigilance. Its history. A big empire in those days of meagre communications had to invest its local officials with considerable power which could be misused in oppression or rebellion; therefore it was essential that an institution be devised to keep the centre informed of all that was happening in the provinces. Muslim writers recognized the antiquity of the system.⁷ Later investigation has shown that even the Achæmenid emperors of ancient Persia had officers known as the king's eyes and ears who went to the distant corners of the empire to make investigations and report to the court.⁸