About the Book: Muhammad Bin Tughlaq : Tale Of A Tyrant
When his father dies, Prince Jauna Khan succeeds to the throne of Delhi as
Muhammad bin Tughlaq. His reign will prove to be epic and bloody, but
unsurpassed in splendour, innovation and defeat. A formidable strategist and
remarkable scholar, the Sultan will go down in history for his brutality as well
as his brilliance, unfairly remembered only as a cruel tyrant who might have
been raving mad. His high-flown aspirations and grandiose ambitions may have met
with crushing failure, but even so, Tughlaq was a great hero of the fourteenth
century, albeit a tragic and