Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c19.s1.13

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superb structures were originally outside Shāh-Jahānābād, but were included within the modern Delhi when the walls were repaired by the British Government in 1803. A handsome gateway leads into the enclosure. There are arched rooms in the outer wall of the gateway which are supposed to have been the kitchen of the students of the madrasah. The college was closed in 1793 for want of funds.¹ The college, the mausoleum and the mosque of Ghāzīuddīn within the same enclosure form one of the few remaining specimens of religious endowment similar to those of the middle ages in Europe, combining in one spot a place of worship, a tomb of the founder, and a residence and place of instruction for those who were to have charge of them,—all built during his lifetime.² The college is now uninhabited.³