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‡ Central character of the play.
‡ Most wonderful king, who ruled India for a
short span of twenty years.
‡ Girish Karnad has shown him to be a man
of opposites, the ideal and the real, the
divine aspiration and the deft intrigue.
‡ One of the critic said that karnad projected
the curious contradictions in the complex
personality of the Sultan.
 

‡ Tughlaq is well versed in Greek, Persian

and Arabic literature.
‡ He has read the Greeks.
‡ He was very much influenced by the
excellence and the power of uplifting in the
poetry of the Sheikh sadi of persia.
‡ He is also an expert in the game of chess.
‡ His learning of Quran(koran) is better than
that of any of any Sheikh or sayyid.
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Even his critics and opponents recognize his
scholarship. Sheikh imam
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din who had
raised the standard of revolt against the
Sultan and stirred the people of Kanpur to
rebel, admits that Sultan is a µSCHOLAR OF
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‡ Tughlaq¶s scholarship makes him a visionary.
‡ He longs to climb up to the tallest tree in the
world.
‡ Like Nehru, who was also a visionary, he has
hopes of building a new future for INDIA and
is ready to explain what the people don¶t
understand.
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‡ Tughlaq has his own ideas which he wants to
translate into action.
‡ He is idealistic to his step
mother and stands
for justice, equality, honesty and courage.
‡ He wishes every act in his kingdom to be a
prayer, every prayer to be a further step in
knowledge and every step to lead the people
nearer to God.
‡ He wants every man to have prayers five
times a day and to read the koran and act
upon it.

   

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‡ He longs for justice to work in his kingdom
without any considerations of might or
weakness, religion or creed.
‡ His ideas of justice and equality are
ahead of his times.
‡ He wants his people to be treated equally.
‡ He wishes to share their joys and to laugh
and cry and pray with them. He works
hard for the people.
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‡ Tughlaq is a democrat & not a tyrannt.

‡ He allows people to criticize him openly

and not to be afraid of him.
 
 


‡ All his idealism is shattered.
‡ Justice and equality is denied by his state
officers to the people.
‡ Thieving ,looting and killing are rampant in
the state.
‡ People eat burnt strips of skin of all kinds of
animals.
‡ They are facing drought and famine stalking
‡ There are riots for foods.



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‡ Tughlaq wanted to be a king, worthy to
wear the royal robes, to be loved by the
people of his state,to gain their confidence
to began trust but he got hatred, contempt
and revolt.
‡ His step
mother suspects him and even
barani doubts him.
‡ Many rulers up against him
‡ The state is in a mess.
   
‡ Tughlaq is also a crafty politician.
‡ He commits murder one murder after the
other.
‡ He orders his step
mother to be dragged
to death.
‡ To do away the opposition, he lays a trap
for sheikh Immamudin for becoming his
envoy for peace and gets him murdered.

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‡ Tughlaq is impulsive in nature.
‡ He always thinks that he is right and all his
actions are right too.
‡ Nobody can foretell his moods and actions
and his own fate.

 

‡ Tughlaq ideals were frustrated within the

short span of twenty years.

‡ He made him as a laughing element.

 

The play ends as he sleeps on his throne,
tired and exhausted, then wakes and looks
around dazed, frightened as if he cannot
comprehend where he is.