Hauz Khas Village
Fourteenth-century madrasa ruins and royal reservoir, now fringed by galleries and rooftop bars.
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This guide to Hauz Khas Village in Delhi traces what lies beneath its rooftop bars and boutiques: a reservoir Alauddin Khalji dug around 1296 to supply his capital, left to silt up after his dynasty fell, and the madrasa Firoz Shah Tughlaq later raised along its banks in the 1350s, drawing scholars from a Delhi that had become the center of Islamic learning after Baghdad's destruction. Graduates of that madrasa went on to serve as judges and officials across the sultanate.
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