Muhammad Tughluq had conquered Telingana, Mabar, Kampili and Dwarasamudra and his dominions encompassed almost the whole of South India. It was difficult to rule these territories from distant Delhi.
The emperor, therefore, decided to shift his capital to a more central place, Devagiri, which was rechristened Daulatabad. We need not go into the details of this project which involved the migration of almost the total population of Delhi and untold miseries which they had to suffer.
Though the experiment ended in failure and the migrants were asked to get back to Delhi, still the capital never regained its earlier glory and prosperity. Many of the people could not afford to undertake the arduous journey and preferred to stay in Daulatabad.
Thus Daulatabad became a centre of Muslim culture and remained throughout under the later dynasties of Bahmanis, Nizam Shahis, Qutb Shahis and their successors, the Nizams of Hyderabad.