Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq's Tomb

This guide to Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq's Tomb follows the sultan's return from a military campaign in Bengal in 1325, and the wooden pavilion his son had built at Afghanpur to receive him, a structure that collapsed and killed him before he reached Delhi. It weighs the competing accounts, from the traveler Ibn Battuta's report of a survivor to the court chronicler who blamed lightning, and a Sufi saint's prophecy that the sultan would never make it home. Inside this red sandstone mausoleum, three graves lie beneath one white marble dome.