Muhammad bin Tughlaq

Looking back at ‘Tughlaq’ by Girish Karnad

In the play, the protagonist, Tughlaq, is portrayed as having great ideas and a grand vision, but his reign was an abject failure. He started his rule with great ideals of a unified India, but his degenerated in a span of 20 years into anarchy and his kingdom. The king wanted to build a secular state, moving his capital from Delhi to Daulatabad, a Hindu-majority city; his ideas about the economy were new but he turned into a whimsical tyrant who couldn’t control the kingdom anymore. When it came out, writer U.R. Ananthamurthy felt it reflected the political mood of disillusionment  | Click Here...