India is full of numerous beautiful forts built by the kings of their reign. Today, I am writing about a fort standing in the capital city of India. Delhi.
Tughlaqabad Fort is a ruins fort on the Mehrauli-Badarpur route in New Delhi, built in 1321 by Ghis-ud-din Tughlaq, the founder of the Tughlaq dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate of Delhi Sultanate in India, as he founded the fourth historic city of Delhi. Then, which was later abandoned in 1327.
After the death of Alauddin Khilji, his successors proved incapable of ruling the entire Sultanate and were soon replaced by Khusro Khan. Ghazi was a feudalist and bannerman of Malik Khilji and, with the help of the armies of Multan and Sindh, overthrew Khusro Khan to become the new emperor of the Delhi Sultanate, named Guyya-ud-din Tughlaq. He established the famous Tughlaq dynasty and built the fort of Tughlakabad within four years from 1321-25. To save the empire and its subjects from riotous Mongols, Ghayasuddin built the Tughlaqabad Fort.
The entire fort is made of granite and is located in a circumference of about 6 kilometers. The southern part of the Tughlaqabad Fort with the palace, royal, residence, and public hall still stands, but the city is now completely in ruins.
Sloping rubble-filled city walls, a distinctive feature of the Tughlaq dynasty monuments, are 10 to 15 meters high, topped by warring parapets and reinforced by circular bastions up to two stories high. It is believed that the city once used to be 52 gates, out of which only 13 remain today. There were seven rain water tanks in the city of Garhwale.
On the southern side of the fort is the tomb of Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq, which was built by the ruler himself. The glorious fort stands as an exemplary structure of medieval India and is a journey for those interested in this segment of India's history.
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