The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehli c9.12

c9.12

palace and a host of other workers. Besides, a few state departments were treated as part of the palace organization. Thus the royal household played an important part in the government of the sultanate, not only because courtiers always possess influence in a polity of which the monarch is the pivot, but also on account of its actual share in the administrative machinery of the state. A discussion of its organization will indicate its importance.¹