Late Middle Ages · South Asia · Politics
1329
Muhammad bin Tughlaq moves the capital to Daulatabad
1329
The sultan of Delhi ordered his entire capital - courtiers, scholars, merchants, even the blind - to march seven hundred miles south to the Deccan fortress of Daulatabad. Thousands perished on the road. The experiment lasted two years before Tughlaq admitted failure and marched everyone back. Ibn Battuta called it madness.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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