RE-LIVING THE FORGOTTEN, DIVING INTO THE HISTORY
DIGGING THE STORY, AND, UNVEILING THE MYSTERY!
TUGHLAQABAD AT GLANCE-ONCE A CITY!
The fort could never get populated and settled in happiness! It was when after defeating Khilji, Tughlaq took over the throne and established his own town. This is how Tughlaqabad was born as Tughlaq’s capital.Where the magnificentfort was being constructed by the cold-blooded, Ghayasuddin, on one hand, people were vacating the city and migrating sadly on the other.The savage emperor could not continue with the capital and soon shifted to Jahanpanah, a new city for the public erected in the heart of the cities Mehrauli and Siri.This untold bizzare story of the Tughlaq city finds its root in this brutal past, and reflects in the giant fort even today.
VOCAL WALLS OF ARTISTRY
The tall and high walls of the herculean fort say a lot about the fine architecture. Each wall is a great witness of the fact that the early emperors were well endowed with “Vastu”. The huge and stupendulous walls standing 10-15m high are beautifully engraved with pleasing ventilators along with 13 colossal gates, closets and 3 internal pylons that enabled the army personals to sit inside the fort and detect any upcoming threat and have full-long view of the intruders.
THE LIVE PAST
The fort is spread octagonally in a 6km-large sprawling campus. The massive old constructions of the streets, homes and lobbies lying in the interior of the fort will drift you back in time. A secretive tunnel that ways you out of the fort will enthrall the spectators with its technicalities. Also, the site is quite evident about the existence of 7 water tanks and huge cisterns of the times.
HEARING THE DEAD TALES
To the south of the fort lies the well maintained tomb of the mythical Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq. The entrance of the tomb is adjoined with a concrete road which is 600ft long and some of its parts have been transformed into the current Mehrauli-Badarpur road. On one hand, the magnificent walls of the tomb still radiate with its used granite rocks and marbles; the red stones paving the path to the tomb add to the alluring beauty on the other. The tomb comprises three graves: Ghiyassudin’s being at the middle and the other two being that of his wife and his son-cum-successor Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq. There lies another grave in the tomb which is of “Zafar Khan” as is directed by the epigraphs inscribed on the gate of the mausoleum
WORK WITNESS THE WONDER
Many of the mesmerizing works of Tughlaq existing today in the form of the fort, Kalu Sarae and Beghumpur village screams a lot about their own antique vastu and architecture. The existing Bijay Mandal, Khidki Masjid, Malviya Nagar, and the shrine of Chirag-e-Dilli on Kalka ji road are all the live examples of the ancient works.
BEAUTY CALLING YOU TO STAY
Aulliya once said, either Jackals or Gujar are going to reside here in Tughlaqabad! This was once a myth! But one is bound to believe this story soon after the visit to the royal city. Today, astonishingly, people from ‘Gujar” tribe occupy a major part of the fort! Although, the population in fort and the throne, both declined with Ghiyassudin’s incompetency and fatal adamancy, This Fourth City of Delhi screams a lot about a BEAUTY that flourishes even today.