Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.134

c10.134

The next Sulṭān, Kaiqubād, ruled only for two years, but during this short period he lowered the high tone of literary culture that had been introduced into the society of the day by Sulṭān Balban and his worthy son Prince Muḥammad. He vitiated the literary taste of those who came within his influence by setting a bad example of loose life which they imitated.² As was the Sulṭān, so were his subjects. The day of literary societies was gone, and wine and women reigned supreme. It does not take a long time to destroy what took decades to build.