When his father dies, Prince Jauna Khan succeeds to the throne of Delhi
as Muhammad bin Tughlaq. His reign will prove to be epic and bloody, but
unsurpassed in splendour, innovation and defeat.
A formidable strategist and remarkable scholar, the Sultan will go down
in history for his brutality as well as his brilliance, unfairly
remembered only as a cruel tyrant who might have been raving mad. His
high-flown aspirations and grandiose ambitions may have met with
crushing failure, but even so, Tughlaq was a great hero of the
fourteenth century, albeit a tragic and fatally flawed one.
In this fictional retelling, Anuja Chandramouli, one of India's best
mythology writers, reimagines Muhammad bin Tughlaq's life and times in
incredible detail to bring to life the man behind the monarch.