The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehli c15.23

c15.23

ber of Muslims to his faith.¹ Probably, the best tribute to the tolerance of the sultans is the contemporary development of Hinduism as a great spiritual force in the form of the Bhakti cult which even to-day plays such an important part in the life of the people. The sultans, however, insisted that no woman should burn herself on the funeral pyre of her husband without permission, which was withheld only when it was discovered that the widow was performing the dreadful rite under compulsion.²