The present book discusses the problems of kingship and politics in the ‘Muslim’ India. In it an attempt is made to estimate the political psychology of the Turkish kings of Delhi and to depict the influence of political environment and condition on the development of essentials of statecraft. The Indo-Turkish kingship faced issues political, social, economic, and religious in the light of the medieval political phraseology and ideology. Of late some Indian scholars of the ‘Muslim’ India have broken new ground in the field of research and have thrown new light on the knotty problem of statecraft. But no attempt has been so far made by scholars of our country at the study of the Indo-Turkish kingship and its influence on politics and state on the basis of historical data. History books on the early Muslim period are conspicuously wanting in the appreciation of the political psychology of the Indo-Turkish rulers and in the estimation of the interrelation aspect of kingship and politics. Lifeless exposition of political happenings, spiritless content, dried-up form are their salient features. Their insidious insinuation has warped the verdict of history. The delineation of the moving time-spirit, working behind the political drama of the ‘Muslim’ India, is also lacking in them. In the historical evolution of our country it was a potent factor in impressing its stamp on the mind and soul of the people. This fact is hardly suggested by our historians. The lair in the Indo-Turkish kingship is a subject of scientific investigation which our historians do not consider worth their thought. It has been consciously or unconsciously substituted by an interpretation of history based on the religion racial bias. It is unhistorical and unscientific and creates communal mindedness. It also has disintegrated the sense of belonging to a common country and a common historical heritage. That the partisan’s spirit has blurred historical perspective and resulted in distortion of facts cannot be denied. Even the new apologetic school in Indian history has too weak a foundation to stand the neo logic interpretation. It is bound to collapse despite its adoption of modern phraseology and ‘scientific’ method.

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