Both statements are True. Important PointsSultan Muhammad Tughluq appointed Aziz Khummar, a wine distiller, Firuz Hajjam, a barber, Manka Tabbakh, a cook, and two gardeners, Ladha and Pira, to high administrative posts. Ziyauddin Barani, a mid-fourteenth-century chronicler, reported their appointments as a sign of the Sultan‚¬„¢s loss of political judgment and his incapacity to rule. Barani had criticized Muhammad Tughluq for that appointment. Tughluq's appointment reflected the socio-economic stereotypes that may have been prevalent in those times. The authors of Persian tawarikh criticized the Delhi Sultansfor appointing the ‚¬Å“low and base-born‚¬ to high offices. Thus it concluded that Muhammad Tughluq was criticized for appointing a wine distiller, a barber, and a cook to high administrative posts This reflects the socio-economic stereotypes that may have been prevalent in those times.