Tughlaqabad Fort
Ruined fourteenth-century fortress with massive stone ramparts, battlements, and a legendary curse.
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This guide to Tughlaqabad Fort in Delhi opens in 1325, with Sultan Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq riding home from Bengal furious at a Sufi saint who had defied him over a stepwell and a cut-off oil supply, and the saint's quiet reply: Delhi is still far. It follows the sultan back toward his new capital, to a wooden welcome pavilion built near a village called Afghanpur, and the son who inherited the throne days after the sultan stepped inside it with his younger son. Listen for the curse the saint is said to have spoken before any of it happened.
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