Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.235

c10.235

With the death of the monarch, Daulatābād lost its patron, and Delhi began to recoup itself. But it could not get back its former position, for Fīrūz Tughlaq came to the throne with the scheme of building a new capital; and no sooner did he wear the crown than we find him starting his building operations for the purpose. This capital, however, did not become like that of his predecessor a source of misery and oppression to the people of Delhi for the reasons that it was very near the latter and that the monarch did not cause any compulsory exodus. The contiguity of the old and the new capitals made them to some extent partners of the same lot; so that when Fīrūzābād rose in prosperity and fame as an educational centre, Delhi did not fail to rise *pari passu*. But the younger sister threw for a time the elder into the shade.