Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.376

c10.376

THE first two Sayyid kings, viz. Khiẓr Khān and Mubārak, following in the footsteps of the first three Tughlaqs, gave effect to their ambitious design of building towns. Khiẓr built Khiẓrābād after his own name, and adorned it with some beautiful edifices, while the latter did not live to complete his Mubārakābād, owing to his assassination.¹ The reigns of these two Sulṭāns were short, as were also the two following. The last Sulṭān, Sayyid ’Alāuddīn, lived in Badā’ūn for about thirty years after Bahlūl had wrested Delhi from him.