Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c12.s1.19

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prince whose literary enterprise can well bear comparison with that of his namesake of the Imperial Dynasty of Delhi. He was perhaps more learned than the erudite Muḥammad Tughlaq: he was a good linguist, and Ferishta records that in his harem there were ladies of various races, such as Arabians, Circassians, Georgians, Turks, Europeans, Chinese, Afghans, Rajputs, Bengalis, Gujrātīs, Telinganese, Marhattas and others, with each of whom he could converse in her own language.¹