Travelling in 13th Century India

It is not fun to dig ancient treasure, but it is more difficult and challenging to rule and establish authority as a king when you are in a new land. Iltutmish was the third slave king of Mamluk dynasty. He was the ruler and Sultan of Delhi in the 13th Century. With tact and diplomacy, he avoided the invasion of Mongols in India. The most brutal force at that time, wherever they invaded they left the story of brutality, they killed thousands of people, they even did not spare the animals. They destroy Baghdad, burnt all the books. The Arabs shipping industry suffered in their hand. On his journey his companion a trader told him about Sultan Iltutmish and some previous kings particularly Mohammed Ghaznavi Sultan of Tashkent and their character and how they arrive to India. Traders came to India at Iltutmish time, during his journey he cross Bihar and many other towns in India before entering in Delhi. He saw the rule of Razia Sultan, the daughter of Iltutmish and the first female ruler of India a medieval queen and the only woman to rule India. As the time pass by, traveler became old man. He saw the rule ofNasruddin, the grandson oflltutmish. He was called saint king because of his piety and simplicity. The traveler met Amir Khusro; he invented Urdu language. He wrote thousands of couplets in Urdu and Persian language. He heard or met Nizam Uddin, the gifted saint of Delhi. Silk route from central Asia to Delhi and how the trade was carried out. Finally, the books Traveler read. These ancients' books, only their name is in the history.