Late Middle Ages · South Asia · Politics
1353
Firuz Shah Tughlaq stabilizes the Delhi Sultanate
1353
After the chaos of Muhammad bin Tughlaq's reign, his cousin Firuz took the throne and governed with a gentleness unusual in Delhi. He built canals, hospitals, and gardens, freed slaves by the tens of thousands, and refused to torture. The sultanate breathed. It would not last, but for a generation India exhaled.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.