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Safdarjung Tomb
The 1754 garden tomb at Safdarjung in Delhi, built by Nawab Shuja-ud-Daula of Awadh for his father Safdarjung (Mirza Muqim Abul Mansur Khan, 1708-1754) — the Mughal viceroy of Awadh and briefly the Prime Minister of the empire under Ahmad Shah Bahadur. The tomb is the last substantial Mughal garden tomb built in Delhi, and marks the stylistic decline of Mughal architecture — Shuja-ud-Daula's architect Bilal Muhammad reused marble panels and columns stripped from the earlier Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan's tomb at Nizamuddin. The nine-domed structure sits in a 300-metre chahar-bagh garden. The 1947 Partition emptied the Nawab's descendants' claim on the tomb; it is now ASI-protected as the final Mughal royal mausoleum.
- Function
- Burial and funerary
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 28.589, 77.208
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- Site withinDelhi
Safdarjung Tomb lies within Delhi — the two sites sit about 3 km apart, well inside the city's historical boundary and part of the same urban or peri-urban landscape. Safdarjung Tomb is one of the specific sites that give Delhi its layered character, and reads differently when seen as a stop within the larger city rather than as an isolated monument on an open map. The surrounding neighbourhoods, roads and other heritage ensembles belong to the same single urban fabric.
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Sources
Wikipedia, “Tomb of Safdar Jang”. Archaeological Survey of India and State Archaeology monument records, and the standard regional literature.
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