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 144 MOHAMMAD TAGHLAK AND FIROZ SHAH jarat. Some of them were never suppressed, and Bengal and the Deccan were lost to the kingdom. It was in vain that Mohammad Taghlak invoked the shade of a great name and obtained the sanction of the Abbasid caliph of Cairo to his title as orthodox king of India. In vain he received the mantle and AN ANCIENT GATEWAY AT WARANGAL. diploma of investiture (1343), and welcomed a beggarly descendant of the famous caliphs of Baghdad with pecul- iar solemnity and humble deference to his splendid court at Delhi and even set the sacred foot upon his own proud neck. Nothing could restore the loyalty of the people or of their governors. Experiments and in- novations had harassed them and brought much suffer-