Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c15.s2.50

Language: English

c15.s2.50

It is not generally known that the famous Humāyūn’s Tomb, in the vicinity of New Delhi, *was at one time used as a place of instruction.* That it has not always been a mere tenement beautiful and imposing for sheltering the sarcophagus of the Emperor, and that it housed a madrasah in its bosom, fulfilling a task in addition to the one for which it was built, is testified to by C. Stephen :—

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