Place · pre-Mughal royal tomb · India
Ibrahim Lodi's Tomb, Panipat
Also known as Ibrahim Lodhi Tomb
A low rectangular platform tomb raised in 1526 for Ibrahim Lodi, last sultan of the Delhi Sultanate, killed at the First Battle of Panipat. Unlike the elaborate domed Sayyid-Lodi tombs at Delhi, Ibrahim's grave is a simple inscribed stone slab on a platform — a defeated sultan's burial made on the battlefield by his conqueror. The surrounding railing was added by the British in 1866.
- Function
- Burial and funerary
- Patron dynasty
- Lodi
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 29.392, 76.971
Connections (2)
- Site withinPanipat
Ibrahim Lodhi's battlefield grave is at the eastern edge of Panipat city.
- DefeatedZahiruddin Babur
Babur defeated and killed Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the First Battle of Panipat on 21 April 1526 using mobile field artillery and the tulughma flanking tactic Timur had used at Ankara. Ibrahim’s head was brought to Babur after the battle; his body was buried on the battlefield in the simple platform grave at Panipat that is the only royal Lodi tomb outside Delhi. The battle ended the Delhi Sultanate and founded Mughal rule in India.
Sources
Standard reference (Archaeological Survey of India).
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