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What did Sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq order in 1327 that became a byword for catastrophic administration?
Thousands died on the road, and within about a decade the court marched back. His token brass currency — forged in every household — completed the reputation.
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Muhammad bin Tughluq's Order of 1327 That Marched the Capital of India 1,100 Kilometres South In 1327 Sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq of Delhi ordered his capital — officials, scholars, and by hostile account the whole population — transferred some 1,100 km south to Daulatabad. Thousands died on the road; within a decade the court trudged back. Paired with his token-currency fiasco, it fixed his reputation as the sultan of brilliant ideas that ended in catastrophe.
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