FIROZ SHAH TUGHLAQ

About:

• Firoz Shah Tughlaq (1309 – 1388) was a Turkic Muslim ruler of the Tughlaq Dynasty, who reigned over the Sultanate of Delhi from 1351 to 1388. He succeeded his cousin Muhammad bin Tughlaq.
  
  
• During his reign, Firoz Shah did public construction activity on a massive scale.
  
  
• He built Feroz Shah Kotla, the fortress, on the banks of the Yamuna and called it Firozabad. Firoz Shah was the first ruler to build a fortress next to river Yamuna.
  
  
• Emperor Ashoka’s pillar, erected near Ambala in 250 BC, was transported to Delhi and placed in Firozabad. At the Ridge in north Delhi stands another Ashokan pillar, smaller in size, near Hindu Rao Hospital. It was moved from Meerut to Delhi by Firoz Shah.
  
  
• He peppered Delhi with gardens, constructed canals, hunting lodges, built Dargah Qadam Sharif, which is located in Delhi’s Sadar Bazar and repaired Qutub Minar, Hauz Khas (royal tank) and Surajkund (lake of the Sun).
  
  
• He was also able to create a “multi-lingual, multi-cultural space by providing patronage to poets, musicians, and various linguistic communities”. Under his patronage, premakhyan which is Sufi poetry written in Awadhi grew. It was a new genre of literature.
  
  
• His autobiography is Futuhat-i-Firozshahi.