“The Unsung Brahmin Hero who Defied Firuz Shah Tughlaq”, The Dharma Dispatch, November 12, 2025

“FIRUZ SHAH TUGHLAQ inherited a splintered empire from his more infamous cousin, Muhammad Bin Tughlaq and presided over its extinction. Few Sultans of the Delhi Sultanate had so many attempts made on their life by those in their close circles. His bodily infirmities showed themselves in the weak character of his military, which kept losing winnable wars. The later part of his regime was notable for intra-Sunni civil wars — a situation that he had personally created.

Firuz Shah Tughlaq was a bigoted Sunni Sufi Muslim. Throughout his tenure, he tried to compensate for his physical deformities by unleashing a regime of bigotry.  

From a young age, he had imbibed the most fanatical elements in the Islamic scripture and enforced them with singleminded heartlessness that has few parallels……”

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