Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c12.s1.40

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His literary beneficence was, it is related, so widespread that there was scarcely a town or a city the learned men of which had not derived advantage from him. There are in the Deccan many remains of public works accomplished by him with his own resources, amongst which may be mentioned the famous college at Bīdar, built by him two years before his death.² Says Meadows Taylor—