Lal Bangla are two imperial late- Mughal mausoleums located in

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, India, that are that protected monument under the

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.List of Monuments of National Importance as published by the Archaeological Survey of India

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Lal Bangla has two tombs made of red and yellow sandstone. One of which is the tomb of

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(Imtiazi Mahal), wife of Mughal Emperor

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(1661 - 1713) and his daughter Begum Jan. Both mausoleums consist of square rooms at diagonals with oblong halls between them. The mausoleum stands on a red sandstone platform with rooms at corners. The dome of the mausoleum is in the late Mughal style and has a pinnacle at the top. The mausoleums share architectural similarities with the use of red and yellow sandstone of the

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. The adjoining enclosure has three tombs belong to the family of emperor

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(1806-1837). The buildings are within the premises of the

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and is not accessible to general public. Also located within the complex is the tomb of Syed Abid, which was built in 1036 AH ( approx. 1626 CE). Sir Syed Ahmed Khan's seminal work on the monuments of Delhi, ''Aasar Us Sanaadeed'' mentions Syed Abid as an associate of Khan Dauran Khan, one of Shahjahan's leading soldiers.

History

Lal Bangla is one of the most noteworthy and interesting historical monuments of the Mughal period. There is a debatable matter about the identification of the character who is buried down under the structure of Lal Bangla. A large number of historical researches suggests that the

mausoleum A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A mausoleum without the person's remains is called a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be consid ...

belongs to the daughter and mother of a

Mughal emperor The Mughal emperors ( fa, , Pādishāhān) were the supreme heads of state of the Mughal Empire on the Indian subcontinent, mainly corresponding to the modern countries of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. The Mughal rulers styled t ...

named Shah Alam. The name of the daughter of Shah Alam is known to be Begam Jaan and of his mother as Zinat Mahal Sahiba or

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