Jafarganj Cemetery is located in

Murshidabad Murshidabad fa, مرشد آباد (, or ) is a historical city in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located on the eastern bank of the Bhagirathi River, a distributary of the Ganges. It forms part of the Murshidabad district. Durin ...

, West Bengal, India.

Geography

Location

Jafraganj Cemetery is located at . The

Namak Haram Deorhi Namak Haram Deorhi (also known as the ''Traitor's Gate'', ''Jafarganj Deorhi'' or ''Jufarganj Palace'') was the palace of Mir Jafar. It is located just opposite to the Jafarganj Cemetery in the ''Lalbagh'' area of the town of Murshidabad and ne ...

House of Jagat Seth The Jagat Seth family was a wealthy merchant, banker and money lender family from Murshidabad in Bengal during the time of the Nawabs of Bengal. History The house was founded by Jain Hiranand Shah from Nagaur, Rajasthan, who came to Patna ...

, Nashipur Rajbari ,

Kathgola Palace Kathgola Palace is a historical building belonging to the Dugar family at Kathgola in the Murshidabad-Jiaganj CD block of Murshidabad district. It now houses a museum. Etymology The place was earlier called Kath Golap Garden because '' Wood Ro ...

and

Tomb of Azimunissa Begum Tomb of Azimunissa Begum is located at Azimnagar (oid Murshidabad), in the Murshidabad district. According to the List of Monuments of National Importance in West Bengal the Tomb of Azimunissa Begum is an ASI Listed Monument. Geography Locat ...

are all located nearby. One can reach the temple town of Rani Bhavani at

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, on the other side of the Bhagirathi, by country boat from Ajimganj. Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in Murshidabad city. Most of the places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map. A few, without pages yet, remain unmarked. The map has a scale. It will help viewers to find out the distances.

History

Jafargaj Cemetery was built by Mir Jafar over an area of 3.51 acres within an enclosure of waved walls, about half a mile north to the Nizamat Fort Campus and inside the campus of

. It hosts the graves of the later Nawabs of Bengals of the Najafi dynasty, starting from Mir Jafar, and their family members while Khushbagh, which was built by Nawab

Alivardi Khan Alivardi Khan (1671 – 9 April 1756) was the Nawab of Bengal from 1740 to 1756. He toppled the Nasiri dynasty of Nawabs by defeating Sarfaraz Khan in 1740 and assumed power himself. During much of his reign Alivardi encountered frequent Mar ...

, hosts the graves of the Nawabs of Bengal belonging to the Afshar dynasty and their family members. At present this graveyard is controlled and maintained by the

Archaeological Survey of India The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is an Indian government agency that is responsible for archaeological research and the conservation and preservation of cultural historical monuments in the country. It was founded in 1861 by Alexand ...

. It is said that earlier there was a "Kitchen Garden" at the site of this cemetery which Shah Khanaum Begum (Mir Jafar's wife and Alivardi Khan's sister) was very fond of. The Jafarganj Cemetery has the graves of the family members of the Nawab of Bengal. It hosts the graves of Nawab Nazim

Humayun Jah Sayyid Mubarak Ali Khan ( bn, মুবারক আলী খান; 1759 – 6 September 1793), better known as Mubarak ud-Daulah (spelled also as: Mubarak ud-Daula), was the Nawab of Bengal and Bihar. He was the son of Mir Jafar and Babbu Begu ...

, his wives Umdat-un-nisa Begum, Amir-un-nia-Dulhan Begum, Sultana Ghetiara Begum and Rais-un-nisa Begum; Nawab Nazim Walla Jah, his wife Nazib-un-nisa Begum; Mir Jafar and his wives Shah Khanaum Begum, Babbu Begum and Munny Begum; Nawab Nazim Mubarak ud-Daulah, his wife Faiz-un-nisa Begum; Syud Ahmed Nazafi, (Mir Jafar's father); Muhammad Ali Khan (Mir Jafar's brother); Bohu Begum, wife of Nawab Nazim Ali Jah; Nawab nazim Nazam ud-Daulah; Nawab Nazim Saif ud-Daulah; Babar Ali; Mehr Lekha Begum, (also known as Guiti Afroz Mahal), wife of Humayun Jah, who was previously a ''mut‘ah'' wife and Ismail Ali Khan and Ashraf Ali Khan (the sons-in-law of Mir Jafar).

Gallery

File:The musnud of Murshidabad (1704-1904) being a synopsis of the history of Murshidabad for the last two centuries, to which are appended notes of places and objects of interest at Murshidabad (1905) (14590189449).jpg, This is a picture of Jaffraganj Cemetery from the book, ''The Musnud of Murshidabad (1704-1904)'', published in 1905. Jaffraganj Cemetery is described as “the family burial ground of Meer Jaffer, containing the tombs of the Nawabs Nazim, from Meer Jaffer to HumajunJah”. File:Jaffraganj cemetery at Murshidabad.jpg, Jafaraganj Cemetery in 2013 File:MirJafarTomb.jpg, Tomb of Mir Jafar File:MunniBegum.jpg, Tomb of Munni Begum File:TombAshrafAliKhan.jpg, Tomb of Ashraf Ali Khan File:MubarakAliKhan.jpg, Tomb of Mubarak Ali Khan I File:HumayunJahTomb.jpg, Tomb of Mubarak Ali Khan II (Humayun Jah) File:Jafarganj Cemetery 4.jpg, Tomb of Hira and Panna, two messenger pigeons File:Jafarganj Cemetery 5.jpg, Mosque inside the cemetery

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