Question

about firoz shah tugluq construction

Answer 1

Firstly, the Tughlaq rulers were pious and orthodox Sunni Muslamans and were interested in building the structure strictly in accordance with religious direction.
Secondly, the Tughlaq were poorer and did not possess sufficient money to squander away an ambitious architectural plans. Sir John Marshall adds another factor to the above two mentioned by Prof. Srivastava. He says that the decay in early craftsmanship and artisans was another major factor.
Ghiasuddin Tughlaq built Tughluqabad (the third of the 7 cities) to the east of Qutab. Though the city and the palaces built by Ghiasuddin Tughlaq are now in ruins but an idea about their magnificent can be still formed.
Marshall says, “Few strongholds of antiquity,” are more imposing in their ruins, than Tughlaqabad. He says, “Its cyclopean walls, towering grey and somber, above the smiling landscape, colossal, splayed-out bastions; frowning battlements; tiers on tiers of narrow loopholes, steep entrance ways; and lofty narrow portals all these contribute to produce an impres­sion of unassailable strength and melancholy grandeur. Within the walls all is now desolation, but, amid the labyrinth of ruined streets, and buildings, the precincts of the Royal Palace, once roofed with tiles of glittering gift are still discernible; and so too is the citadel rising high above the rest of the town and protected by its own double or triple lines of defence.”
Marshall further expresses the opinion that the Palace of Tughlaqabad must have been built in hurry with poor material and that is why it did not survive for long.