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The mad Sultan | The Spectator Australia
Deeply read in religion, philosophy, and politics, the Sultan was also impatient and cruel. Does this remind you of anyone? Perhaps holed up in a grand palace at the top of a hill in, say, I dunno, Spring Street?
The Delhi Sultan Muhammad bin Tughlaq is synonymous with “irrational tyrant” in the Desi (Indian-subcontinental) world. Reigning from 1325 to 1351 in present-day India, he was described as an enlightened, yet “inhuman eccentric” known for changing his mind at the unravelling of a turban. This is ringing some bells. They sound like police sirens. I hope a grandmother isn’t sitting on a park bench somewhere.
One of his first decrees was moving the seat of power from Delhi to modern-day Maharashtra, over…
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