TUGHLAQ

Play by Girish karnad

Girish karnad – 1938 to 2019
Girish karnad
❖Born at matheran in 1938
❖Contemporary writer, playwright, screen writer, actor.
❖19 may 1938 to 10 june 2019 at aged (81), Bangalore.
❖Jananpith award in 1998
❖Padmashri (1974) and Padma Pushan(1992)
 ❖Yayati (1961)
❖Maa Nishaadha (one act play)

His notable
❖Tughlaq (1964)
❖Hayavandana (1971)

works ❖Naga mandala (1990)

❖The fire and rain (1998)
❖Talenda(1990)
 Tughlaq introduction

❖ Tughlaq is a Indian Kannada language, 1964

❖ First staged at Urudu in 1966
❖ National school of drama
❖ Staged at Durana Qila, Delhi in 1972
❖ It was enacted in English at Mumbai 1970
❖ 13- scene play
❖ 14th century turko-indian ruler
❖ Contemporary politics of the 1960s
 ➢ MUHA
MAD

❖Muhamad bin tughlaq

❖Tughlaq and allegory on
nehruvian era
❖Tughlaq is define as historical
play
❖Past events that took place
during the reign of muhamad
bin tughlaq
 ❖Chess
❖Aziz and Aazam
SYMBOLS: ❖Prayer
❖Python
CHESS AS A SYMBOL

❖It's subbolizes that the

whole kingdom
❖The officials, friends,
enemy and courtiers
❖manipulates his political
rival
Prayer
❖Does not symbolize anything
❖Ironical sense
❖Killing his father
Aziz and Aazam

❖Confusion and choas of tughlaq era

❖The coward and the foolish in muhammad
Python
❖Utter barbarity and inhumanity
❖The political situation of India in the 60s
Characters
❖Tughlaq - (sultan or main protaganist)
❖Aziz – a shrewed man who decieves tughlaq with his disguise
❖Aazam – friend of aziz and his partner
❖Najinb - an advisor to the emperor
❖Sheikh – iman –uddin – a critic of tughlaq
❖Ain-ul-mulk – an old friend of tughlaq, who later turn into enemy
❖Barani – loyan adviser
❖Sihabuddin, aratansingh, Amirs, Sayyids – these four people plan
to murder sulltan for his foolish act
❖Step mother – tughlaq's stepmother
SUMMARY
◦ Scene 1: court, 1327AD, in Delhi
❖Vishnu prasad from shiknar field a case
❖Chief justice: kazi-i-Mumalik – 500 silver dinars, civil service for income
Tughlaq announcemet
❖Change of capital from Delhi to dauladabad
❖Abolished jiziya tax of hindus
❖Shedikh Iman-ud-din reveals secret about tughlaq
❖Vishnu prasad(Aziz) scamed tyghlaq
Aziz – vishnu prasad(son of muslim dhobi)
Azam - pickpocket
Scene 2 :palace

❖Tughlaq used to play chess, he has insomnia

❖Ain-ul-mulk led an army against tughlaq
❖Ain-ul-mulk, governor of avadh-now, frist governor of decan
❖Najib (converted muslim) and zia-ud-din (historian) arrive
❖Najib discuss about ain-un-mulk and shaikh iman-ud-
din(resembels tughlaq) stepmother dislikes najib. Tughlaq
plans for common prayer
Scene 3: prayer
❖Tughlaq and shaikh iman-ud-din conversation (a peace talk)
❖Sheikh goes as envoy to kanauj

Scene 4:
❖ Stepmothet meets shihab-ud-din, sardar ratansingh gives the
information that he war and delivers that sheikh has decided
❖ Tughlaq have peace talk with Ain-ul-mulk
 Scene 5

❖People are forced to move to dauladabad so important people plan to kill

tughlaq
❖Sheikh shams-ud-din convinces shihab to kill & ratan singh plans for kill tughlaq
during prayer
Scene 6: palace(meeting)
❖Tughlaq anouncement about abbsaid ghiyas-ud-din muhammed who comes to pray
for people
❖And also announces about the replacement of copper courrency instead of silver
dinars
❖Prayers starts dtughlaq have set 20 hindu soldier. ratan singh information about
planning, shihab-ud-din got killed

Scene 7: enroute to douladabad

❖ Aziz and azam bribes from people
❖ Many people die on the way
Scene 8: 1332AD(dauladabad fort
❖Tughlaq gets infromatino about najib's death (found dead in bed)

Scene 9: hill
❖ Ghiyas ud-din comes from arabia & confronts aziz
❖ Ghiyas shows letter and ring of tughlaq
❖ Aziz ghiyas as disguised

Scene 10: palace

❖ Tughlaq killed many people for najib and later finds the killer through the
conversation with stepmother. She is stoned to death
Scene 11:daultabad
❖Aziz enters in disguise as ghiyas –ud-din for prayer

Scene 12:
❖ Azam tries to move out of daulatabad but called, killed by tughlaq

Scene 13:
❖ Barani's mother dies in village
❖ Tughlaq confronts aziz and wanted to him
❖ Aziz left unharmed by tughlaq, he flees and act as server to the people
❖ Tughlaq back to (famine) delhi
❖ Tughlaq finally sleeps after 5 years