About Me
- Shahdara Lahore
- Shahdara again - on the outskirts of Lahore - a place where once royalties roamed and elephants carried the princes and princesses. Now only tomb reamin and a desolate silence. Besides Jahangir and his son in law Asif, lie buried Noor Jahan - the once most powerful royalty of the Mogul empire and the beloved wife of Emperor Jahangir. Her tomb once had a marble cenotaph which she had built herself during her life time. During the Sikh rule of Punjab, like all other Mogul buildings, this tomb was also mercilessly plundered and looted of its decorative tiles, marble and red stones, which later used for building the Golden Temple, a Sikh holy place in India (Amritsar). Whatever remained, was further ruined by the British. For they laid a railway line through the gardens of the tomb and used one part of it as a coal dump in the late 19th century.
