[Assam] ASI move to preserve Charaideo maidams

[Manoj Das]

Dr ji

The max damage was done by the tomb raiders of the East India Co.. And that
is not unusual for the Britishers to do so during that time.

Recently I went for a heritage walk in the Mehrauli Archeological Park..
Part of the complex was owned by a British businessman called Metcalfe
during Bahadur Shah Zafar's time. He removed the tombstones of Balban- the *
'damad*' of Qutubuddin Ai-baq ;and also that of Quli Khan- the foster
brother of Emperor Akbar. Quli Khan's tomb was converted into a drawing room
to entertain the powerful and wheeler dealers during the fag end of Mughal
rule. He further went ahead to convert the Western gate of Qutub Minar to a
swimming pool- the pool was fed with rain water from the Mehrauli village.
Its quite interesting to take the walk. One can see 9 centuries packed in
about 15 acres of land.

-manoj

On Feb 6, 2008 10:32 PM, DR BIKASH KUMAR DAS <biku006 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:

>
> ASI woke up too late.Already local people looted inside maidams. I did
> heard that in my childhood and since then thre was hectic requests to
> ASI.But Central Govt mahee aiir choku!!!
> Etiya nai momaitkoi kona momai bhal. Thanks ASI.
>  Bikash
>
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