26-551: Shahi Qila may refer to: Shahi Qila, Jaunpur , a fort built during the 14th century in India Shahi Qila, Lahore , a citadel built during the 17th century in Pakistan Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Shahi Qila . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
52-578: A large personal library of manuscripts in Persian, Arabic and other languages. He brought 2 Ashokan Pillars from Meerut , and Topra near Radaur in Yamunanagar district of Haryana , carefully cut and wrapped in silk, to Delhi in bullock cart trains. He re-erected one of them on the roof of his palace at Firuz Shah Kotla. Transfer of capital was the highlight of his reign. When the Qutb Minar
78-458: A small boy on the throne claiming him to be the son of Muhammad bin Tughlaq, who meekly surrendered afterwards. Due to widespread unrest, his realm was much smaller than Muhammad's. Tughlaq was forced by rebellions to concede virtual independence to Bengal and other provinces. He established Sharia across his realm. His father's name was Rajab (the younger brother of Ghazi Malik ) who had
104-600: Is a fort built during the 14th century in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh , India. The fort is located close to the Shahi Bridge on the Gomti river . A tourist attraction of the Jaunpur city , it is located near Shahi Bridge of the Gomti river , 2.2 kilometres (1.4 mi) from Jaunpur. Constructed by Ibrahim Naib Barbak, a chieftain of Firoz Shah Tughlaq , it was built using the material owned by temples and palaces of
130-649: The Rathore kings of Kannauj . The fort was destroyed multiple times by rulers, including the Lodhis and the British Empire . It went through extensive renovations and repairs during the rule of the Mughal Empire . The Kerar Kot fort once stood on the same site on the left (north) bank of the Gomti river . It contained a mosque and a spacious and stylish set of baths (hammam) installed by Barbak,
156-616: The Maldives) and BIMSTEC Countries (Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Thailand) at 25 INR per head and online 20 INR. Feroz Shah Tughlaq Firuz Shah Tughlaq ( Persian : فیروز شاه تغلق , romanized : Fīrūz Shāh Tughlaq ; 1309 – 20 September 1388) was the 19th sultan of Delhi from 1351 to 1388. A Muslim ruler from the Tughlaq dynasty , He succeeded his cousin Muhammad bin Tughlaq following
182-587: The Muslim theologians. Tughlaq took to heart the mistakes made during his cousin Muhammad's rule. He decided not to reconquer areas that had broken away, nor to keep further areas from taking their independence. He was indiscriminately benevolent and lenient as a sultan. He decided to keep nobles and the Ulema happy so that they would allow him to rule his kingdom peacefully. "The southern states had drifted away from
208-777: The Sultanate and there were rebellions in Gujarat and Sindh", while "Bengal asserted its independence." He led expeditions to against Bengal in 1353 and 1358. He captured Cuttack , desecrated the Jagannath Temple, Puri , and forced Raja Gajpati of Jajnagar in Orissa to pay tribute. He converted Chauhan Rajputs from Hinduism to Islam in the 14th century . They are now known as Qaimkhanis in Rajasthan . He laid siege to Kangra Fort and forced Nagarkot to pay tribute, and did
234-481: The brother of Tughlaq. The fort's layout is an irregular quadrangle enclosed in stone walls. The walls surround raised earthworks. Most of the remains of the original structures are buried or in ruin. The main gates face east. The largest inner gate is 14 metres (46 ft) in height. Its external surface is set with ashlar stone. A further outer gate was installed during the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar under
260-431: The caste of 'badpagey' were born to the queen. Rather than awarding position based on merit, Tughlaq allowed a noble's son to succeed to his father's position and jagir after his death. The same was done in the army, where an old soldier could send his son, son-in-law or even his slave in his place. He increased the salary of the nobles. He stopped all kinds of harsh punishments such as cutting off hands. He also lowered
286-430: The ground floor from the first. Nothing much has survived inside the fort. A mosque and a Turkish hammam are the only two prominent structures within the fort complex. Apart from these the complex also contains a gate-like structure along with a dargah . It symbolises a perfect Turkish bath, commonly known as Hammam . The Hammam is partly underground, having both inlet and outlet channels, hot and cold water, and
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#1732779923395312-425: The infrastructure of the empire building canals, rest-houses and hospitals, creating and refurbishing reservoirs and digging wells. He founded several cities around Delhi, including Jaunpur , Firozpur , Hissar , Firozabad , Fatehabad . Most of Firozabad was destroyed as subsequent rulers dismantled its buildings and reused the spolia as building materials, and the rest was subsumed as New Delhi grew. Tughlaq
338-487: The land taxes that Muhammad had raised. Tughlaq's reign has been described as the greatest age of corruption in medieval India: He once gave a golden tanka to a distraught soldier so that he could bribe the clerk to pass his sub-standard horse . Tughlaq instituted economic policies to increase the material welfare of his people. Many rest houses ( sarai ), gardens and tombs ( Tughluq tombs ) were built. A number of madrasas (Islamic religious schools) were opened to encourage
364-535: The latter's death at Thatta in Sindh , where Muhammad bin Tughlaq had gone in pursuit of Taghi the rebellious Muslim governor of Gujarat . For the first time in the history of the Sultanate, a situation was confronted wherein nobody was ready to accept the reins of power. With much difficulty, the camp followers convinced Firuz to accept the responsibility. In fact, Khwaja Jahan, the Wazir of Muhammad bin Tughlaq had placed
390-518: The like. The structure consists of several domes with openings on tops allowing light to filter in. The interior consists of several rooms complete with water channels and tubs. The rooms are connected with a complex maze of passageways giving it a bhulaiya -like appearance. The mosque or masjid is likely the oldest building in Jaunpur township. It follows a rectangular plan of dimension 39.40 metres (129.3 ft) x 6.65 metres (21.8 ft). It
416-448: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shahi_Qila&oldid=834572149 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Shahi Qila, Jaunpur Shahi Qila (English: Royal Fort), also known as Karar Fort or Jaunpur Fort,
442-451: The patronage of the governor of Jaunpur, Min'im Khan, in the 16th century. It is designed in the shape of a flanking bastion . The spandrels or spaces between the arches of the outer gate were decorated with blue and yellow tiles. Ornamental niches are built into the walls of the outer gate. The two-storey residential and administrative building or "palace" was built in a square layout. An interior pillared verandah or aiwan overlooked
468-485: The religious education of Muslims. He set up hospitals for the free treatment of the poor and encouraged physicians in the development of Unani medicine . He provided money for the marriage of girls belonging to poor families under the department of Diwan-i-khairat. He commissioned many public buildings in Delhi . He built Firoz Shah Palace Complex at Hisar in 1354 CE, over 300 villages and dug five major canals, including
494-406: The renovation of Prithviraj Chauhan era Western Yamuna Canal , for irrigation bringing more land under cultivation for growing grain and fruit. For day-to-day administration, Sultan Firuz Shah Tughlaq heavily depended on Malik Maqbul , previously commander of Warangal fort , who was captured and converted to Islam. When Tughlaq was away on a campaign to Sind and Gujarat for six months and no news
520-511: The royal title to his grandson, Tughluq Khan. Tughlaq's death led to a war of succession coupled with nobles rebelling to set up independent states. His lenient attitude had strengthened the nobles, thus weakening his position. His successor Ghiyas-ud-Din Tughlaq II could not control the slaves or the nobles. The army had become weak and the empire had shrunk in size. Ten years after his death, Timur 's invasion devastated Delhi . His tomb
546-485: The same with Thatta . During his time Tatar Khan of Greater Khorasan attacked Punjab multiple times and during final battle in Gurdaspur his face was slashed by the sword given by Feroz Shah Tughlaq to Raja Kailash Pal of Mau-Paithan from Nagarkot region. Firuz Shah Tughlaq married off his daughter with Raja Kailash Pal, embraced him to Islam and sent the couple to rule Greater Khorasan , where eleven sons known by
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#1732779923395572-625: The title Sipahsalar . His mother Naila, a Hindu woman, was the daughter of Raja Mal from a concubine of Dipalpur which is now in the Punjab region of Pakistan. We know of Firuz Shah Tughlaq in part through his 32-page autobiography, titled Futuhat-i- Firuz Shahi . He was 42 when he became Sultan of Delhi in 1351. He ruled until 1388. At his succession, after the death of Muhammad Tughlaq, he faced many rebellions, including in Bengal, Gujarat and Warangal . Nonetheless, he worked to improve
598-409: Was a Salafi Muslim who tried to uphold the laws of Islam and adopted Sharia policies. He made a number of important concessions to theologians. He tried to ban practices that the orthodox theologians considered un-Islamic, an example being his prohibition of the practice of Muslim women going out to worship at the graves of saints . He persecuted a number of sects that were considered heretical by
624-434: Was available about his whereabouts Maqbul ably protected Delhi. He was the most highly favoured among the significant number of the nobles in Tughlaq's court and retained the trust of the sultan. Sultan Firuz Shah Tughlaq used to call Maqbul as 'brother'. The sultan remarked that Khan-i-Jahan (Malik Maqbul) was the real ruler of Delhi. Hindu religious works were translated from Sanskrit to Persian and Arabic . He had
650-702: Was struck by lightning in 1368 AD, knocking off its top storey, he replaced them with the existing two floors, faced with red sandstone and white marble. One of his hunting lodges, Shikargah, also known as Kushak Mahal, is situated within the Teen Murti Bhavan complex, Delhi. The nearby Kushak Road is named after it, as is the Tughlaq Road further on. His eldest son, Fateh Khan, died in 1376. He then abdicated in August 1387 and made his other son, Prince Muhammad, king. A slave rebellion forced him to confer
676-555: Was supported by a 12 metres (39 ft) pillar having a Persian inscription inscribed on it, telling the story of the erection of the mosque in 1376 by Barbaq Shah Feroz Shah’s brother. The mosque has a triple arch and is topped with three low central domes. There is a stone pillar next to the mosque. The entrance is not free. The fee structure is different for Indians and foreigners. No fees are charged to children up to 15 years. Indian citizens and visitors from SAARC (Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and
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