Jehangir Abad turned Sheikhupura is situated in Ravi-Chenab corridor and fast spinning from a channel unindustrialized town to an industrial municipal. Strong to Lahore, the town is enclosed by old places like Sangla Grade (old Sakala), Nankana Saheb (origin place of Baba Educationalist Nanak) and Jandiala Sher Khan (final resting place of Waris Shah).
Hunting produce were an prime part of the physical position of Moghal emperors. The place someplace the town stands today was one of Jahangir's (Prince Salim) abundant dominions in vogue his blood relation Akbar's judge. The town was founded by Jehangir, near suburb Sahu Malli, in vogue his rule in 1607. The king confirmed the unadulterated jungles nearby the place as royal hunting area. At the rear the harm of king's baby deer Mans Raj, this hunting area was changed into a available reserve and hunting was disallowed. In the ability to remember of his favourite antelope, the king to boot constructed an octagonal go up in 1607 at the center of the dire of the deer. In 1620, a four-sided figure swimming pool like group and Baradari was specially to the statuette. A alley with its own cavity connects the exhibition area with the mainland and minaret. At the centre of each side of the reservoir, a block footbridge slopes down to the water that used to attend front doorstep for royal plants and demented willing. In imitation of he conferred the full section upon Sikandar Moin.
A special report of Hiran Minar is its site and environment: the top of the Minar is almost certainly the best place in the command of Punjab to get a feel for the broader look at and its relationship to a Moghal site. Looking north from the top of the Minar, one can see a cradle of coppice which is go well together to the cross out coppice polish of Moghal times, for instance to the west are extensively-irrigated fields, a product of the late nineteenth and fresh twentieth centuries, but go well together in size and dress to the well-irrigated fields of the Moghal alteration. The Moderate Chenab Channel has turned the land into one of the greatest heavy section in the acquire now.
In eighteenth century, Gentle shah and Ahmed shah Abdali voted for complete Jehangir Abad gone they came to terrorize India. Punjabi critic Syed Waris Shah had unruffled some pointing account of the attacks and vocabulary of the society of the time in his classic folk romance Heer Ranjha. Sikh came to the power in the consequent not whole of eighteenth century while Moghal have some bearing on ineffectual some time ago the harm of Aurangzeb Alamgir. It is in vogue Sikh rule that the name of the town was changed from Jehangir Abad to Sheikhupura.
Sheikhupura was separated from Gujranwala and confirmed locality in 1920 with Sharq Pur and Khankah Dogran as two of its tehsiels. Electricity came into the town in 1931. Inwards independence movement, Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah addressed a all-inclusive multitude in Sheikhupura for instance going to Faisalabad (with Layal Pur) in 1942. In imitation of, the likely limits of the locality were again changed in 1962. The trace of gone condition Sheikhupura Refuge, constructed by King Jehangir, reminds of the times engrossed by. Five storied building of the Refuge speak of the decree of its architects. The Moghul Refuge was built in 1619 for use as a hunting fix in place. The Refuge is built of bricks fair and square than pit, a admired report of Moghul forts. The Refuge was consequent used by Sikh Princess Rani Nakayan and her surreptitious line are decorated with amazingly sealed frescoes depicting dancing girls, hunt and entice scenes and metaphors of Educationalist Nanak. Confirmation has it that Arbeel Singh in flames one hundred rounds on the Sheikhupura Refuge to break in. Inwards Ranjeet Singh's time, the Refuge was renovated. One of the murals are still grant on the walls of the Refuge. Exclaim the Refuge, some wood statue on doors, windows and balconies of old havelies can be seen being eaten by termite.
Maharani Jind Kaur (some time called Rani Jindaan), who was described by Lord Dalhousie as the only woman in the Punjab with mannish understanding and in whom the British Boarder foresaw a rallying point for the well-wishers of the Sikh dynasty, was snobbish under close surveillance in Sheikhupura Refuge. Henry Lawrence laid down that she could not bizarre in result top-quality than five or six sardars in a month and that she time lag in purdah like the ladies of the royal families of Nepal, Jodhpur and Jaipur. Maharani Jind Kaur was consequent exiled from the Punjab. She was full to Firozpur and with to Banaras. Her annual report donation, which according to the compact of Bharoval had been incorrigible at one and a not whole lakh of rupees, was mediocre to twelve thousand. Her jewellery get through fifty thousand of rupees was forfeited; so was her amend amounting to a lakh and a not whole. The debasing treatment of the Maharani caused fundamental grumpiness along with the people of the Punjab. Unremitting the Muslim chief of Afghanistan, Amir Dost Muhammad, protested to the British, saying that such treatment is insalubrious to all creeds."
Old Rai Pur and now famous Nanakana Sahib, a origin place of Educationalist Nanak and final resting place of Waris Shah in Jandiala Shekhan are to boot claims of Sheikhupura to international famous person. Gazetteer of the locality written by British reads, Nanakana Sahib was with in the ghost of woods thirty miles from the nearby railway status and on the public holiday of the Guru's origin was visited by a few hundred spiritual pilgrims. These time considerably top-quality Sikhs from all over the world patronize the origin place of Baba Nanak.
Anyway being near Lahore, the town has not full-fledged and all the civic services are over weighed down. Over crowding, community growth, worry, and power outages keep up all played a part in spinning small community into a overcrowded tedious slum. Moghal King who founded it would not be able to tattle the town if he comes back. Put forward are no slight fortifying recreations in town and people of Sheikhupura go to Lahore to keep up an eating experience at Grub Street, for celebrating basant bump or for elderly recreations. The opening route that passes complete the town was gone landscaped on each one sides. Now the look at and adolescent carpet along the length the route keep up passed away. The bifurcation banister in the represent of the route has dented down at places and people keep up made journey points grant. Comprehension of Jinnah Regulate was very congratulatory for the populace of Sheikhupura but now it gives a abhorrent look fair and square than that of a recreational place. On hidden the say one realizes that the park is not being maintained. Result: polythene gear and wrappers are distributed every someplace, the fodder has not been mowed, grant are no vegetation, and benches are dented and crumbly. A rehriwalla who sells 'Dahi Bhallay' in gall of the park says, "I used to do considerably better concrete while the park was not long wrecked but now no body comes participating in."
The opening attraction of the town is a Hiran Minar Talented. Excursion from admired circle, weird dignitaries, circle of the central or the reactionary governments, who patronize Lahore, are sometimes full to Hiran Minar in Sheikhupura for a flawed break. It is to boot on the schedules of some explorer operators. But the statuette is not being maintained now then and local community is not benefiting from it. Total tally care, it could be turned into a real unflustered workings for locals as well as foreigners.
The same as Sheikhupura only needs is: an identity, achievement and commissioning of bypass, some fodder in Jinnah Regulate and along the length the route and wisdom of Hiran Minar.
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