why did muhammad-bin-tughlaq shift the capital from delhi to devagiri
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Answer: During the relocation, many people died. By the time people reached Daulatabad, Muhammad Bin Tughlaq changed his mind and decided to abandon the new capital and move to his old capital Delhi. It is believed that he wished to shift the capital as a safeguard measure from Mongol Invasion.
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Muhammad Bin Tughlaq decided to shift his capital from Delhi to Devagiri as he thought it was vulnerable to Mongol attacks and would also enable him to control the south. Instead of shifting only the offices, he ordered the whole population to shift with him and after getting to know that Devagiri was not climatically suitable he ordered the whole population to return to Delhi which cause untold misery to a lot of people and further depletion of the treasury.
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