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Opening Closing Time All days of the week 8 am to 6 pm. This angered the Sultan. He banned the supply of oil to Nizamuddin, so that the lamps could not be lit at the construction site of the Baoli.
It infuriated Nizamuddin Auliya and he used his mystical powers to turn the water of the well into oil. He became so angry, that he vowed to punish the saint on his return. The curse apparently took shape. The story goes that Mohammed bin Tughlaq, who was also a devotee of Nizamuddin Auliya, met his father at Kara in Uttar Pradesh and conspired to kill him.
Thus, the Sultan never made it back to Delhi. The fort that was never really inhabited was finally unceremoniously abandoned in , almost immediately after the death of the Sultan. Mohammad bin Tughlaq had his own grandiose plans of building a separate fortified city, Jahanpanah, and later, he shifted the capital from Delhi to Daulatabad. In Mehrauli, settlements grew around the dargah of Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki, while present-day Chiragh Dilli and Nizamuddin Basti developed around the dargahs of the 14th century Sufi saints they are named after.
The influence of the Sufis shaped Delhi culturally, as the dargahs became centres for poets, travellers, musicians, philosophers. Even the kings did not remain untouched. Kings chose to be buried near the dargahs.
The baoli is still in use, fed by an underwater spring, and the waters are considered sacred. Muhammad bin Tughlaq built Adilabad, a small fort linked to Tughlaqabad through a causeway, which mirrored the bigger fort in style and substance. The old city in Mehrauli, by now, had expanded beyond the walls of Lal Kot.
So Muhammad fortified the area from Siri to Lal Kot — joining the three cities of Delhi — and called this enclosure Jahapanah the refuge of the world. The remains of this city remains are well hidden in Khirki, beyond present day Press Enclave, but you can see some parts of its walls behind the Indian Institute of Technology and the Begumpur Masjid.
It is said that like Siri, Bijay Mandal too had a Hall of Thousand Pillars, and you can see the sockets on the ground, where the pillars were fixed. It was in this hall that 14th century Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta is said to have met Muhammad bin Tughlaq, after he arrived in Delhi in In , Muhammad bin Tughlaq decided to shift the capital from Delhi to Devagiri which he renamed Daulatabad , kilometres to the south.
Battuta writes that Muhammad bin Tughlaq ordered his soldiers to search for anyone who had stayed behind in the city. His slaves found two men in the streets, a cripple and a blind man. The enraged sultan ordered the cripple to be flung from a catapult and the blind man to be dragged from Delhi to Daulatabad, a journey of forty days.
The sultan commanded the inhabitants of other cities to move to Delhi and eight years later, the capital was moved back. But neither the city nor its people could recover so easily from this uprooting.
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