Consider the following pairs : 1. Pathmar : Horse Postal System 2. Uluq : Foot Postal System 3. Dawa : Messengers How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?

Postal system of the Delhi Sultanate

• Ibn Battuta, who visited India during the reign of Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq, has left a detailed account of the two kinds of postal systems that existed in the Sultanate.
• The uluq was the horse post, in which royal horses were stationed at intervals of about every four miles. Hence, pair 2 is not correctly matched.
• The dawa was the foot post, in which runners were posted at every one third of a mile and carried the mail by relay, running with a rod having copper bells at the top. Hence, pair 3 is not correctly matched.
• The term pathmar or patamar was used for a courier or foot runner and does not denote the horse postal system. Hence, pair 1 is also not correctly matched.
• According to Ibn Battuta this system was so efficient that news and even fruit from Khurasan could reach the Sultan quickly, and it was also used to transmit intelligence about the provinces.