Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c16.2

c16.2

SHĪR SHĀH, whose public works have made his reign so very illustrious in spite of its shortness, has left us in the dark about many an interesting point of his rule. But we learn that he used to mix with the learned ('ulamās), with whom he used to take his meals.¹