Reforms of Firuz Shah Tughlaq

Timeline

1. 1371–1375Delhi Sultanate territories · IndiaFiruz Shah completed a nationwide tax assessment, abolishing more than twenty illegal miscellaneous taxes and retaining only kharaj, zakat, jizya, and the one-fifth war booty tax. He also exempted some agricultural loans from Muhammad bin Tughlaq's reign and severely punished tax collectors who extorted peasants.
2. 1372–1380Hisar and the Yamuna river basin · HaryanaFiruz Shah continued in the 1370s diversion canal projects from the Yamuna, Sutlej, and Ghaggar rivers, irrigating farmland in Haryana and Punjab, and levied a one-tenth irrigation surcharge (haqq-i-sharb) on benefiting villages, with part of the revenue allocated to welfare and religious charity.
3. 1375–1380Delhi · DelhiFiruz Shah maintained the operations of the welfare bureau and free hospitals, restored tax-exempt land for theologians, and made iqta grants hereditary in exchange for noble loyalty. In the late 1370s religious policy grew stricter, with jizya reimposed on Brahmins and other groups, but the northern core region still enjoyed about twenty years of relative peace.