History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c6.235

c6.235

Fergusson describes it as ‘the gigantic fort of an old Pathan Chief.’ Tughluqabad belonged to the principality of Ballabhgarh, but it was annexed by the British Government for the complicity of its Raja in 1857. It is now an insignificant Gujar village, the importance of which consists chiefly in its ruins. Nizam-al-Din, famous saint whose expulsion from Dihli the Sultan had ordered, prophesied of this fort.