Tughlaqabad Fort: Tourist Places in India
Nothing summarizes this once mighty fort as Kipling's verse in Cities and Thrones and Power: "Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die". Did you know that Tughlaqabad is the Third City out of the Seven Cities of Delhi? After Lal Kot which was invaded and captured by Muslims thus ushering in a new era of Muslim Rule in India (First Sultanate and later Mughal), and Siri which is first city built by a Muslim ruler in India, Tughlaqabad was 3 rd to be constructed. Mighty as it is, Tughlaqabad Fort was built in record time of 4 years by the military commander Ghazi Malik who served Alaudin Khilji (the builder of Siri). A Bird Eye View of the Tomb of Ghiyas-ud-Din Tuglaq from Bijay Manadal, Tughlaqabad Fort It is said that during a stroll near Tughlaqabad, Ghazi Malik told his Sultan Alaudin that he should build his fort here to which Alaudin Khilji replied that when when Malik becomes Sultan then he could do so. As it ...