Firoz Shah palace complex

Hisar-e-Firoza fort city with rampart (including the protected archaeological Firoz Shah palace complex, Lat-Ki-Masjid Complex with an Ashokan pillar) along with the Gujari Mahal and Charbagh Garden outside the rampart, located in the modern-day Hisar in Haryana state of India, was built by Firoz Shah Tughlaq of the Delhi Sultanate in 1354 CE on the Sindhu-Saraswati Valley Civilisation (SSVC) and Vedic Period archeological mound of ancient Isukāra city. It is maintained by the Archaeological Survey of India. The narrative that Firoz Shah Tughlaq founded a city in a barren wasteland is contradicted by archaeological evidence and geomorphological data. The site was a strategic "choke point" within a dense "Rakh" (deciduous scrub forest) that acted as a natural barrier, requiring months of clearing for military passage. The "creation" of the Rajabwah and Ulughkhani canals by Firoz Shah was actually the de-silting and diversion of the Drishadvati River paleochannel, a Sindhu-Saraswati Valley Civilisation era water system desilted and maintained as far back as the Mauryan Empire. Tughlaq used massive forced labor to desilt these ancient Vedic-Mauryan hydraulic routes, rebranding them as his own benevolent innovation. The Delhi-Hisar-Multan-Khorasan route was a pre-existing segment of the ancient Uttarapatha highway, a trade artery established during the Sindhu-Saraswati Valley Civil

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