The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehli c16.s6.15

c16.s6.15

Thus iṭlāq was simply a form of payment. There is nothing in ‘Afīf’s description of the difficulties of the soldiers with Fīrūz Shāh in Gujrāt (pp. 220-221) to militate against this view. The regular soldiers had no banking facilities in a distant province to cash their vouchers; whereas these facilities had been available in the capital. Fīrūz Shāh overcame this difficulty by advancing a loan from the Treasury.