Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.341

c10.341

A striking provision made by Sulṭān Fīrūz is another proof of the generosity of the monarch. No age is without a few educated and learned men who feel painfully their eternal want of pence by being out of employ or otherwise. Some of them out of shame would not make their necessities known, and so the Sulṭān gave an order to the kutwāl and the district officers under him that they should bring before the Emperor, after making inquiries about them if necessary, such of them as were in want; and these men of letters were provided for in the Government establishments.²