Towns built by firoz shah tughlaq photo
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The Legacy of Firoz Shah Tughlaq at Kotla Feroz Shah - Place of Djinns
Dear LG Community,
I am back with a hidden gem of Delhi’s history, Feroz Shah Kotla Fort. I visited this fort as part of a Heritage Walk conducted by INTACH Delhi Chapter.
History : Firoz Shah Kotla Fort was built by the last notable ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty, Feroz Shah Tughlaq in which was housed in the city he built called Firozabad which was the 5th city of Delhi. He built this fort and city near the Yamuna river which was away from the Qutub area where the earlier cities existed, to make sure that his kingdom had easy access to a water source which was the Yamuna river.
He chronicled many of his achievements in his autobiography Futuhat-i-Firoz Shahi.
Structures inside the Fort :
- Palace which was used as living quarters for Feroz Shah Tughlaq along with his family
- Mosque area built for offering prayers
- The majestic pyramidal structure which houses the Ashoka Pillar on top. There is a fascinating story behind how this pillar was transported over the Yamuna river, it requires a whole new post to explain
- A water tank used for storing drinking water
- A circular baoli which was used to irrigate the garden which used to have fruits and flower bearing trees
Tales of Djinns :
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Firuz Shah Tughlaq
3rd Sultan leverage the Tughlaq dynasty evacuate to
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Tughlaq dynasty
Third Delhi Sultanate dynasty()
For the play by Girish Karnad, see Tughlaq (play). For the Indian magazine, see Thuglak.
The Tughlaq dynasty (also known as the Tughluq or Tughluk dynasty; Persian: تغلق شاهیان) was the third dynasty to rule over the Delhi Sultanate in medieval India.[10] Its reign started in in Delhi when Ghazi Malik assumed the throne under the title of Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq and ended in [11][12][13]
The Indo-Turkic[14] dynasty expanded its territorial reach through a military campaign led by Muhammad bin Tughluq, and reached its zenith between and It ruled most of the Indian subcontinent for this brief period.[4][15]
Origin
The etymology of the word Tughlaq is not certain. The 16th-century writer Firishta claims that it is an Indian corruption of the Turkic term Qutlugh, but this is doubtful.[17] Literary, numismatic and epigraphic evidence makes it clear that Tughlaq was not an ancestral designation, but the personal name of the dynasty's founder Ghazi Malik. Historians use the designation Tughlaq to describe the entire dynasty as a matter of convenience, but to call it the Tughlaq dynasty is inaccurate, as none of the dynasty's kings used Tugh