Question

Merits and demerits of Muhammad bin Tughlaq (PLZ ANSWER IMMEDIATELY)!!!

Answer 1

Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq was one of the most extraordinary Sultans during the medieval period. Yet few of his demerits led to his downfall.StrengthsMan of ideas: He is famous as the mn of ideas. Some of his ideas included the central capital and token currency.Keen interest in science and mathematics: He had set up a separate ministry to look into the ways of maximizing cultivation from land and help the farmers.Intellectual and highly educated: He was the most educated ruler to have ruled Delhi during the Indian medieval history.Ambitious: He was very ambitious and innovated various existing polices.Strict controller: He was the only one taking policy decision during his regime. No one dared to interfere.Great military ruler: Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq expanded the territories of his empire to lengths that no other ruler of this period could. WeaknessesUnnecessary hastening of events: This one demerit of the Sultan was one of the key factors of his downfall. His hastening up of the measures of tax reforms or token currencies emptied the coffers.Too experimental: His taxation policies and reforms measures completely lacked foresight. Initially, he implemented oppressive taxation policies that drained the farmers.Unwise: He spent money unwisely and according to his whims and fancies. He spent huge sums of money on poets, foreign visitors, officials and at times needy, without any second thought.Unkind: Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq carried out massacres of farmers who failed to pay him the requisite taxes.

Answer 2

Answer:

Muhammad bin Tughlaq

• He presented the copper currency system.
• The value of coins dropped; hence he had to remove the copper token currency.
• To conquer Khurasan, Iraq, and Transoxiana, he introduced an army of 3,70,000 men.

Explanation:

Strengths of Muhammad bin Tughlaq:

1. He defeated the Mongol army when it struck during his early reign.

2. He was the first Delhi Sultan to prepare an offensive against the Mongols.

3. He was not hesitant to employ radical organizational measures.

Weaknesses of Muhammad bin Tughlaq:

1. His radical organizational measures liking shifting capital to Daulatabad and presenting token currency failed miserably.

2. To provide a large number of soldiers, he levied extra taxes when famine spread across the land.

3. His campaign into Kashmir as an offensive even failed.

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