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Questionable: Medieval India Edition

Do you know why an ASI director-general found this historical site ‘disgustingly obscene’ or who the ‘wise queen’ from Marco Polo's travelogue of India was?
A painting of west gate of Firozabad fort, near Delhi. This fort was built by Feroz Shah Tughlaq in the 1350s, but destroyed by later dynasties. Photo: Wikipedia/Public domain.
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