The ancient iron pillar standing in Delhi’s Qutb Minar complex is popularly described as a ‘trophy of conquest’. In fact, it marked the cultural continuity of a royal practice in ancient and medieval north India, of re-using and re-inscribing pillars erected by predecessors.
Firoz Shah discontinued many unfair taxes. He wrote, "In former reigns they used to collect frivolous, unlawful, and unjust cesses at the public treasury. [.] I had all these abolished and removed from the accounts"
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