Unraveling the Complexities of Power: Girish Karnad's Tughlaq and the Interplay of History, Politics, and Faith

Abstract

This research paper treats Girish Karnad's' Tughlaq' as a chronicled play. Tughlaq' by Girish Karnad is a great playwright in Indian English. The play centers around the chronicled character of Muhammad Tughlaq in the fourteenth century. In the play, Karnad manages the history of that time. He was extremely impressed by Tughlaq's story. The play is profoundly mind-boggling and can very easily be seen and interpreted from a range of points of view. Tughlaq is clearly a chronicled play with a mixture of truth and fiction in his account. Karnad looked deeply at the facts associated with Muhammad Tughlaq before writing' Tughlaq.' Reciprocal to the role of playwrights as interpreters was their job as experts, scholars and analysts. Their perception in the scholarly world can be credited with their dynamic inclusion in the plan as well as the verbalization of the theater's ideas and strategies. They had concrete and independently specific ideas of language, sensational strategies, the craft of depiction and execution, which transformed the site into a systematized craftsmanship and a national social establishment.