The New Guide To Delhi PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ... conqueror ascended the vacant throne under the name of Toogluck Shah, in A. D. 1321. house of toogluck. Toogluck Shah reigned from A. D. 1821 to A. D. 1325, and governed his people well and wisely. He built the city called after his name Toogluckabad, which, some six miles from Delhi, is now a mere ruin. He was killed by the fall of a pavilion while visiting one of his sons, Junah, or as otherwise termed Fuqueer-oodeen, who succeeded him under the name of Mahomed Toogluck (A. D. 1325 to A. D. 1351): this man is characterized as being one of the most extraordinary Princes that ever reigned. He was clever, brave, eloquent, and accomplished: but these brilliant qualities were accompanied by a perversion of intellect, which nullified all his talents. He attempted the conquest of China and of Persia, endeavored to get up a paper currency, compelled the people of Delhi to emigrate in a body to Deowgiri (or Dowlutabad), and famine and disease breaking out, the people had again to return to the capital, and some of his subjects revolting, he hunted them down like wild beasts. The provinces lost in this reign were not recovered till the time of Aurungzib. The traveller, Ibn Bututa, a native of Tangiers, visited the kingdom during Mahomed Toogluck's life-time. Firoz Toogluck, commonly called Firoz Shah, succeeded. This reign is distinguished for the extent and utility of its public works. Mosques, colleges, caravanserais, reservoirs, hospitals, bridges, and baths were constructed in great numbers, and a canal was dug from where the Jumna leaves the mountains by Kurnal to Hansi and Hissar. The great city of Firozabad was built in this reign--hardly a trace of it now remains; but the present city of Delhi has been built over a part of the site of...