Mehrauli Archaeological Park
Ruined tombs, mosques, and stepwells clustered across two hundred acres of layered imperial history.
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This guide to Mehrauli Archaeological Park in Delhi follows the poet Jamali, born Shaikh Fazlullah, who served three successive dynasties as a court favorite before designing his own richly tiled tomb chamber ahead of his death in 1535. You'll hear about the mysterious Kamali, buried beside him in the same mosque, whose identity no scholar has ever settled. It traces the verses Jamali pressed into the walls in colored tile, and the questions the room still refuses to answer.
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