Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c19.s1.1

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THE glory of the Muhammadan rule began to decline with the death of Aurangzib. Works of public utility of Emperors and private individuals became few and fewer since Bahādur Shāh came to the throne. He was well-educated and fond of the society of learned men;¹ yet during his reign we have two instances of colleges being established in Delhi. The first was the college founded by Ghāzīuddīn, and the second by Khān Fīrūz Jang who was buried in his own madrasah in 1120 A.H. (1711 A.D.).² Ghāzīuddīn, the father of Āṣaf Jāh the founder of the Niẓām Dynasty in the Deccan, was a favourite officer of Aurangzib and was one of the principal *Amīrs* in the court of Bahādur Shāh. Near the Ajmere Gate of Delhi, he constructed a college and also his own mausoleum and a mosque—all situated within the same enclosure. These نواب غازی الدین خان کی مدرسہ