When Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq (Ulugh Khan) ruled, the Delhi Sultanate temporarily expanded to most of the Indian subcontinent. The regions he attacked and plundered include Malwa, Gujarat, Mahratta, Tilang, Kampila, Dhur-samundar and many more. But the expanded kingdom was difficult to retain, therefore, riots became routine.
He was notorious for his impractical reforms. One such decision was changing his capital to Daulatabad, the Deccan city that he built. He shifted the capital in order to control the south. But this plan was not as good as it sounded. He asked his officials to move to Deccan; most of them fell sick and many died.
The reforms he made with coins led to forgery as many started making their own coins. He had ordered to mint tanka in bronze instead of silver and fixed the value of the new bronze coins at par with the silver tanka. He also replaced the old gold and silver coins by new coins. Soon, there were too many coins that lost their value.
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