Tombs of Ustad – Shagird are

Mughal period The Mughal Empire was an early-modern empire that controlled much of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries. Quote: "Although the first two Timurid emperors and many of their noblemen were recent migrants to the subcontinent, the d ...

monuments situated in village Talania of

Sirhind-Fategarh Sirhind-Fategarh is a town and a municipal council in the Fatehgarh Sahib district in the Indian state of Punjab. Demographics In the 2011 census Sirhind-Fatehgarh had a population of 60852. Males constituted 54% of the population and female ...

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, India. Sirhind was a popular town during Mughal period. It was situated on the

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Highway. In 1710,

Banda Singh Bahadur Banda Singh Bahadur (born Lachman Dev) (27 October 1670 – 9 June 1716), was a Sikh warrior and a commander of Khalsa army. At age 15, he left home to become an ascetic, and was given the name Madho Das Bairagi. He established a monastery ...

and his Sikh army destroyed the city of Sirhind completely and Wazir Khan the governor, was killed in the Battle of Chappar Chiri. But some of these monuments like Tombs of Ustad – Shagird survived.

History

Tombs of Ustad – Shagird, are historical buildings built in memory of Ustad Syad Khan who was a great architect and builder of that period. The tomb of ''shagird'' is built as a memorial to Khawaja Khan who also was a well known architect. In

Hindi Hindi ( Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been ...

and

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
'' Rauza Sharif Rauza Sharif or Shaikh Ahmad al-Faruqī al-Sirhindī Dargah (popularly known as Mujaddid, Alf-Sani) is situated on the Sirhind-Bassi Pathana Road at a small distance to the north of Gurdwara Fatehgarh Sahib. Sheikh Ahmed Farooqi lived at th ...

another well known monuments of the area.

Gallery

File:Tomb of Ustad vill Talania Sirhind 02.jpg, Landscape around Tomb of Ustad. File:Enterance and left side view of tomb of Shagird, vill Talania,Sirhind Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab, India.jpg, Entrance and left side view of tomb of Shagird. File:Tomb of Shagird a view from Ustad Tomb.jpg, Tomb of Shagird a view from Ustad Tomb File:Old Painting on the walls of Tomb.jpg, Old Painting on the walls of Tomb File:Internal View of Tomb.jpg, Internal View of Tomb File:Front side of Tomb.jpg, Front side of Tomb File:Full View Tomb of Ustad.jpg, Full View Tomb of Ustad

References

External links

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