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Work InformationMuhammad Bin Tughlaq by Anuja Chandramouli
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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Why am I talking about these points? Well, because, this book - Muhammad Bin Tughlaq: Tale of a Tyrant - explores the life of a ruler who is known for imposing his ideas without thinking of the practicality of the same. And thus, despite being - historical fiction - the book may offend many readers.
Anuja is known for giving a body to her thoughts in a manner she found logical without worrying for anything else.
I would not talk much about the story explored within as it then may contain a lot of spoilers which I want to ignore. The book explores the life of the protagonist since he was known by a different name to his last days when he was referred to as a Mad monarch!
The author has her own imagination of the character and she tried to present it in this book with a conviction. I will suggest you to not to consider this book as a propaganda in any way. The reasons are simple, (1) The author has mentioned references of the research material for various incidents and (2) Read the “author’s notes” carefully, where she tried exploring the balanced view.
irst couple of chapters introduce a lot of characters and the political game going on, that you may need time to digest them. Of course, if you are history enthusiast then you will find them familiar and the thing might be easy for you. Some of the recent movies life Padmavat also made some characters “known” to the audience (for example, Malik Kafur). However, for a regular reader, paying attention is a must. You may need to re-visit the initial segment in some cases.
The language could have been a little easier as well.
The characters are growing incrementally and various shades of their persona are explored gradually and at the right time, so it adds to the positive attributes of the book.
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