Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c22.4

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’Alāuddīn Khiljī, Sulṭān : Arrogant though uneducated, 32 Benefits to poets and historians, 36 Capricious favours to the learned, 33, 34 Confiscates endowments, etc., xlvii., 35 Generous nobles of his reign, 37, 116 Learns privately to read Persian, 33 Neglects his sons’ education, 32 Paradoxical importance of his reign in literary history, 39–40 Prominence of literature in his reign due to activities of preceding rulers, etc., xlvii., 114 Question of his literacy discussed by Mr. Beveridge, xix.–xxi.