Ala-ud-din Khilji conceived a very ambitious construction programme when he decided to build the second tower of victory, two times higher than Qutub Minar, when he returned victorious from his Deccan campaign. However, the Sultan died before even the first storey was finished and the project remained incomplete. The structure was found to be too perpendicular to be stable! And the political turmoil that followed after his demise could never ensure this as a priority by any of his successors.
The tower that was intended to be built to compete with the Qutub Minar stands today as a symbol of ostentatious display of crude power, undisguised pride and a dream unrealised.
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