Preface
PART I: OVERVIEW
1. Challenge and Response
2. One Land, Two Worlds
PART II: PRELUDE
1. Triumph and Tragedy
2. For God and Mammon
PART III: SLAVE SULTANS
1. Last Rajas, First Sultans
2. Heroes and Zeroes
3. The Divine Right Sultan
PART IV: KHALJIS
1. The Reluctant Sultan
2. Sikandar Sani
3. Radical Reformer
4. The Reign of Eunuchs
PART V: TUGHLUQS
1. Restoration of Normalcy
2. Sultan Quixote
3. Daydreamer Sultan
4. People’s Sultan
5. Timurid Tornado
PART VI: THREE KINGDOMS
1. The Last Hurrah
2. The Snake Pit
3. The City of Victory
PART VII: POLITY
1. Ram-Ravan Syndrome
2. By the King, For the King
3. Wars Forever
PART VIII: SOCIO-ECONOMIC SCENE
1. Paradise on Earth?
2. Polymorphic Society
3. Ideal and Reality
4. Rich Land, Poor People
PART IX: CULTURE
1. Pearls and Dung
2. Duplex Culture
3. The Breath of All Breath
4. Zillion Creeds
Incidental Data
Bibliography
Footnotes
Acknowledgements
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