Entry Fees of Tughlaqabad Fort:
|Children upto 15 years of age||Free Entry|
|Adults (Indian citizens)||Rs 15|
Timings of Tughlaqabad Fort: 6 AM to 6 PM, all weekdays
Tughlaqabad Fort was built by Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq, whose real name was Ghazi Malik. Ghazi was feudatory of the Khalji dynasty rulers in Delhi. As the fable says, Malik suggested building Fort on the hilltop on southern border of Delhi to his master but he laughed it away saying that he should build it when he became the king. This joke turned out to be true and Ghazi Malik was able to force Khaljis out of Delhi and assumed kingship. In order to keep the Mongol invaders out of Delhi, he started building the fortifications. Tughlaqabad Fort was constructed with this objective. Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq also built a link road connecting Qutub Minar at Meharauli to this fort (now called the Mehrauli-Badarpur road) and further linking to the Grand Trunk Road which was built by Sher Shah Suri. At present, this fort is in ruins.
Architecture of Tughlaqabad Fort
Tughlaqabad Fort is about 10 to 15 meters high. It has sloping walls made of rubble. On top of the fort are parapets to be used as watch stations. The Fort enclosed a city and had 52 gates at that time. The whole area of Tughlaqabad consisted of three main sections-a city which housed its residents, a citadel with a tower, a number of halls and long underground passage and the nearby palace area where members of royal family lived.
There is an elevated pathway which connects the Fort to the Mausoleum of Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq and a water reservoir.
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