Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.204

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¹ *Ṭabaqāti-Nāṣirī*, Elliot ii, p. 318; and *Ferishta* vol. i, p. 402. “A mile beyond the walls of the Tughlaqābād city is an isolated fortified little hill known as Nai’s (or Barber’s) Fort. This was apparently a college (Madrasah) or the retreat of some holy personage and was probably fortified as such against a possible Mughal attack.”—Fanshawe’s *Delhi Past and Present*, p. 291.