UPSC History Optional · Paper I · 2025 · Q6(b) · 15 marks
Barani’s “Fatwa-i-Jahandari” was not a proper account of the Delhi Sultanate, rather a lament. Elucidate. 15 Marks
- Chapter
- Society, Culture and Economy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
- Topic
- Historians and Sources: Barani, Minhaj and Amir Khusrau
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