# The move to Daulatabad
**राजधानी दिल्ली से दौलताबाद**

- Canonical page: https://indianepics.online/event/daulatabad-1327/
- Chapter: [Cholas to the Sultanate](https://indianepics.online/chapter/medieval.md)
- Track: evidence (archaeology and documents)
- When: 1327 CE – 1335 CE (± 1 years)
- Where: Daulatabad fort, Maharashtra (19.9428, 75.2133)
- Tags: political, state-formation

## Summary

In 1327 Muhammad bin Tughluq makes Devagiri, renamed Daulatabad, a second capital and sends Delhi's elite south; by about 1335 the court is back.

1327 में मुहम्मद बिन तुग़लक़ ने देवगिरि को दौलताबाद नाम देकर दूसरी राजधानी बनाया और दिल्ली के अभिजात वर्ग को दक्षिण भेजा; लगभग 1335 तक दरबार लौट आया।

## Account

Devagiri, the hill fortress of the Yadava kings, had been annexed in 1318. From it the Sultan could govern the new Deccan provinces, which by the late 1320s stretched east to Warangal and south to Madurai. He ordered the officials, scholars and Sufis of Delhi to move there, about a thousand kilometres away. Barani, writing a generation later, says not a cat or a dog was left in Delhi; most historians take that as rhetoric and think the order fell on the Muslim elite rather than the whole city.

The transfer did not hold. By about 1335 the Sultan was back in Delhi, but many of the migrants stayed, and their families supplied much of the governing class of the Deccan's next state. Ma'bar broke away around 1335, Bengal in 1338, and the Deccan itself in 1347.

## Sources

- Elliot and Dowson, The History of India as Told by Its Own Historians, vol. III (1871) — https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.458719 (Barani's Tarikh-i Firoz Shahi on the transfer to Daulatabad)
- Ibn Battuta, Travels in Asia and Africa 1325–1354, tr. Gibb (1929) — https://archive.org/details/the-travels-of-ibn-battuta-1929
- Jackson, The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History (1999)

## Image

Daulatabad fort and Chand Minar. Vinat, CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0), via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ADaulatabad_fort_and_Chand_Minar.JPG

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