Hinduraya Suratrana, or Sultan among Hindu Kings. Five years later another brother, governing a different part of this stitched-together kingdom, took the same title, followed in 1354 by Harihara too naming himself Sultan.43 It was the first time Indian rulers applied the term ‘Hindu’ to distinguish themselves from Muslims of foreign origins – in other words, a geographical term applied to Indians in general by outsiders was now internalized.
