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 138 MOHAMMAD TAGHLAK AND FIROZ SHAH ering from what seemed to be a death-blow. All the people had been forcibly removed years before, and the place was still comparatively empty. The heart- . broken inhabitants were made to give up their familiar homes and cherished associations, and, taking with them their servants and their children and such belongings as they could carry, to trudge the weary march of seven hundred miles to a strange country which could never A TOMB AT OLD DELHI. replace the beautiful city where they were born and to which they were bound by every tie of love and memory. Many died on the way, and of those who reached Daulatabad few could resist the homesickness and despondency that kill the Hindu in exile. They were chiefly Moslems, but they were forced to live in an " infidel " country, and they gave up the ghost in passive despair. The new capital became the nucleus of the cemeteries of the exiles.