• Alauddin sought to fix the cost of all commodities from food grains, sugar and cooking oil to a needle, and from costly imported cloth to horses, cattle, and slave boys and girls. For this purpose, he set up three markets at Delhi—one market for food grains, the second for costly cloth, and the third for horses, slaves and cattle.

• Each market was under the control of a high officer, called Shahna, who maintained a register of the merchants and strictly controlled the shopkeepers and the prices.