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The biggest ‘intelligent foolish king’ in Indian history, despite being educated, came out in understanding!
Samira Vishwas | June 3, 2025 10:24 AM CST

The Mughal rule in India has been for a long time. Since childhood, we have been reading on the pages of history. He has also contributed significantly to the development of the country. The reign from Babur’s rule to Aurangzeb has been quite interesting and fun. During their reign, the Mughals built kg, built grand mausoleums, made a unique heritage like Taj Mahal, which is the identity of India today. People from all over the world arrive to see it. On hearing his name, people feel that it must have been a very cruel type of ruler, but it is not so. Some emperors were very compassionate in heart, who used to take special care of them by staying among their people. A lot of rooms were constructed where the king lived. Separate rooms were made for everyone. From the kitchen to the garden-garden had its own different important role.

Prior to this, in many articles, we have heard you stories of Mughals. Today we are going to tell you about the most intelligent foolish king in Indian history, which was amazing eccentric. You all will be surprised to hear its name.

Mohammed bin Tughlaq

Actually, the name of this rule was Mohammed bin Tughlaq, who ruled most of India from 1325 to 1351 AD. It was considered the most intelligent foolish king. It was the 18th Sultan of Delhi, which became its identity. If the page of history is overturned, Mohammed bin Tughlaq was a visionary ruler as well as a very scholar. But due to his eccentric policies, many disasters came in his kingdom and life. People strongly opposed him, which also caused him a lot of damage. Tughlaq’s decree started from the same time.

Two eccentric hobbies

According to historians, this regime made a lot of plans, but all failed. The public gave him the title of fool by irritated by whose plans. You will be surprised to know about his hobby. His first hobby was to share gifts among the people happy, so his second biggest eccentric hobby was that he used to get angry and shed blood.

Most educated ruler

Talking about education, Mohammed bin Tughlaq was the most educated among all the Sultans of Delhi. He had knowledge of subjects like Arabic, Persian, Mathematics, Astrology, Medicine. He got token currency and copper coins. However, it failed as it was very easy to make the token currency fake. Mohammed bin Tughlaq’s treasure became empty due to fake and useless coins. According to historians, this ruler gave salary to about 370 thousand soldiers in advance. Many of which were not capable of fighting war. In such a situation, he suffered a big loss. Gradually, he had to replace copper coins with gold and silver coins, so he was given the surname of the most intelligent fool in history.


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