Contents

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

2. For God and Mammon

4. People’s Sultan

1. The Last Hurrah

2. The Snake Pit

3. Wars Forever

3. Ideal and Reality

2. Duplex Culture

4. Zillion Creeds

Acknowledgements

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