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| Lalbagh Fort |
Lalbagh
Fort or Fort Aurangabad, a deficient Mughal royal residence stronghold at Dhaka
on the waterway Buriganga in the southwestern piece of the old city. The
waterway has now gone further south and streams at a significant separation
from the post. D'Oily's artistic creation (1809-11) demonstrates that the
greater part of this east-west oval post touched the water of the stream on its
south and southwestern sides. The
development of the fortress was initiated in 1678 AD by ruler muhammad azam
amid his 15 month long bad habit sovereignty of Bengal, yet before he could
finish the work he was reviewed by aurangzeb. His successor, shaista khan did
not proceed with the work, however he remained in Dhaka up to 1688. His little
girl bibi pari (Lady Fairy) kicked the bucket here in 1684 and this drove him
to view the fortification as unpropitious.
For
long the stronghold was thought to be a blend of three structures (the mosque,
the tomb of Bibi Pari and the Diwan-I-Aam), two portals and a bit of the mostly
harmed fortress divider. In any case, late unearthings did by the Department of
Archeology of Bangladesh have uncovered the presence of different structures
and it is currently conceivable to figure a pretty much entire photo of the
fortress.
In
the present fortress region of 18 sections of land, unearthings have uncovered
stays of 26/27 structures with expand game plans for water supply, sewerage,
rooftop greenhouses, and wellsprings. Remodel work by the Archeology Department
has now put Lalbagh Fort in a much-enhanced shape and has now turned into a
fascinating spot for travelers and guests.
Of
the three surviving passages, the southern one is the most forcing. Seen from
the front it is a three storeyed structure with a fronton, flanked with thin
minarets. From inside it gives the impression of a two storeyed structure. The
door on the upper east is a considerably littler and easier structure. It is
assembled from auxiliary confirmation that the fortification stretched out
toward the eastern side past the present Shaista Khan Road. The third entryway,
now in the focal point of the northern limit divider, was left fragmented. The
present one is a current development.
The
southern fortress divider, running westbound from the South Gateway went up to
the colossal bastion in the southwestern corner of the fortification. At that
point the stronghold ran northward for a separation and afterward it is lost.
The limit divider on the eastern side interfacing the southern and northern
portals is a cutting edge divider and it is currently expected that the
stronghold initially grasped zones advance east past the present Shaista Khan
Road.
On
the northern side of the southern fortress were set utility structures, for
example, the stable, the regulatory piece, and its western part obliged an
excellent rooftop cultivate with plans for wellsprings and a water store. The
private part was situated on the eastern side of the western stronghold,
essentially toward the south-west of the mosque, where the remaining parts of a
sewerage line have been found. The southern fortress is a twin divider, the
external one is around 6.10m high and 1.37m thick, while the inward one is
13.72m high with same thickness. The two are strong up to the tallness of 6.10m
and there are general openings in the upper piece of the inward divider.
The
first stronghold divider on the south had 5 bastions at normal interims and the
western divider had 2 bastions. Among the 7 bastions the greatest one is close
to the primary southern door at the back of the steady, which possesses the
zone toward the west of the portal. The bastion had an underground passage.
Among the five bastions of the southern stronghold the focal one was single
storeyed, the rest are twofold storeyed structures. The focal one contains an
underground live with veranda on three sides, and it can be drawn closer either
from the riverside or from its rooftop. The twofold storeyed bastion at the
southwestern corner of the stronghold was conceivably a Hawakhana, with a water
supply on its rooftop. Two lines of earthenware funnels have been discovered,
which associated all foundations of the stronghold with this supply. An
additional solid earthenware pipe line made with twofold pipes, one inside the
other, have been revealed in the zone between the Hammam and the tomb of Bibi
Pari. The
region westwards from the steady parallel toward the southern fortress once had
an excellent rooftop cultivate with wellspring, rose and star plans denoting
the flowerbeds, and a water repository. The structures underneath contained the
managerial pieces and the private part on the western side.
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| Bibi Pari Tomb |
The
focal territory of the stronghold is involved by three structures - the
Diwan-I-Aam and the Hammam on its east, the mosque on the west and the tomb of
Bibi Pari in the middle of the two - in one line, yet not at measure up to
separate. A water channel with wellsprings at general interim interface the
three structures from east to west and two comparable channels keep running
from south to north, one through the center of the ground in the middle of the
Diwan-I-Aam and the tomb framing a square tank with wellsprings at the crossing
point with the east-west channel, and the other from the water store going
through the base of the tomb. The
water channels and the wellsprings, an extremely basic element of Mughal design,
set an air not exceptionally dissimilar to north Indian Mughal strongholds. A
major square water tank (71.63m each side), set in front (toward the east) of
the Diwan-I-Aam and in the middle of the southern and northern passages, adds
to the magnificence of the building. There are four corner stairs to plunge
into the tank. The
twofold storeyed Diwan-I-Aam joined with a solitary storeyed Hammam on its west
is a forcing building. The Hmmam complex incorporates an open stage, a little
kitchen, a broiler, water stockpiling zone, a stone work block bath, a can, a
changing area and an additional room. The Hammam divide has an underground
space for bubbling water and an entry for sweepers. A long parcel divider runs
north-south along the western veneer of the Hammam partitioning the entire
stronghold territory into two divisions.
The
working in the center, the tomb of Bibi Pari, is the most amazing of the
surviving structures of the post. Eight rooms encompass a focal square room,
containing the mortal stays of Bibi Pari, which is secured by a false vault,
octagonal fit as a fiddle, and wrapped by metal plate. The whole inward mass of
the focal room was secured with white marble, while the four side focal rooms
had stone avoiding up to a stature of one meter. The divider in the four corner
rooms was avoided with delightful coated botanical tiles. The tiles have as of
late been reestablished; two of the first tiles have been held. The
southeastern corner room contains a little grave, prominently known to be of
Shamsad Begum, perhaps a relative of Bibi Pari. The Lalbagh Fort Mosque is a
three-domed mosque with a water tank in front (on the eastern side) for
bathing.
The
archeological unearthings have uncovered strata of the Sultanate and in
addition of the pre-Muslim periods, from where earthenware heads and plaques
have been found. In this manner it is currently advocated to state that however
the Mughals established Dhaka, it was certainly occupied well before the
Muslims came to Bengal.