MUHAMMAD BIN TUGHLAQHIS CHARACTER SKETCH

A WONDERFUL KING

• Most wonderful king, who ruled India for a short span of twenty years.

• A man of opposites, the ideal and the real, the divine aspiration and the deft intrigue.

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• Tughlaq was well versed in Greek, Persian and Arabic literature.

• He had read the Greeks. • He was very much influenced by the

excellence and the power of uplifting in the poetry of the Sheikh sadi of persia.

• He was also an expert in the game of chess.

• His learning of Quran(koran) was better than that of any of any Sheikh or sayyid.

PRAISE FOR HIS SCHOLARSHIP

”YOU ARE A LEARNED MAN. YOUR MAJESTY, YOU ARE KNOWN THE WORLD OVER FOR YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF PHILOSOPHY.”

------BARANI Even his critics and opponents recognize

his scholarship. Sheikh imam-ud-din who had raised the standard of revolt against the Sultan and stirred the people of Kanpur to rebel, admits that Sultan is a ‘SCHOLAR OF EMINENCE’.

A GREAT VISIONARY• Tughlaq’s scholarship makes him a

visionary.• He longs to climb up to the tallest tree in

the world.• He had hopes of building a new future

for INDIA and is ready to explain what the people don’t understand.

“explain tomorrow to those who haven’t even opened their eyes to the light of today. ”

HIS IDEALISM• Tughlaq had his own ideas which he wanted to

translate into action.• He was idealistic to his step-mother and stands

for justice, equality, honesty and courage.• He wished every act in his kingdom to be a

prayer, every prayer to be a further step in knowledge and every step to lead the people nearer to God.

• He wanted every man to have prayers five times a day and to read the koran and act upon it.

HIS SENCE OF JUSTICE- HIS IMPATIALITY

• He longed for justice to work in his kingdom without any considerations of might or weakness, religion or creed.

• His ideas of justice and equality were ahead of his times.

• He wanted his people to be treated equally.• He wished to share their joys and to laugh

and cry and pray with them. He worked hard for the people.

?? TYRANT ??• Tughlaq was a democrat & not a tyrannt.

• He allowed people to criticize him openly and not to be afraid of him.

SHATERRING OF HIS IDEALS

• All his idealism was shattered.• Justice and equality was denied by his state

officers to the people.• Thieving ,looting and killing were rampant in

the state.• People eat burnt strips of skin of all kinds of

animals.• They were facing drought and famine stalking• There were riots for foods.

HATRED & REVOLT OF THE PEOPLE

• Tughlaq wanted to be a king, worthy to wear the royal robes, to be loved by the people of his state,to gain their confidence to began trust but he got hatred, contempt and revolt.

• His step-mother suspected him and even barani doubts him.

• Many rulers up against him• The state was in a mess.

A CRAFTY INTIGUER• Tughlaq was also a crafty politician.• He committed murder one murder

after the other.• He ordered his step-mother to be

dragged to death.• To do away the opposition, he laid a

trap for sheikh Immamudin for becoming his envoy for peace and gets him murdered.

HIS IMPULSIVE NATURE• Tughlaq was impulsive in nature.• He always thoght that he was right and all

his actions were right too.• Nobody could foretell his moods and

actions and his own fate.

HIS FRUSTRATION

• Tughlaq ideals were frustrated within the short span of twenty years.

• He made him as a laughing element.

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