'The tomb of Aurangzeb. (He desired in his will that not more than 8 rupees was to be expended on it) - 1850
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June 30, 1850
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Architectural and Building
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Bahadur Shah II 1837–1857
'The tomb of Aurangzeb. (He desired in his will that not more than 8 rupees was to be expended on it) - 1850
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'The tomb of Aurangzeb. (He desired in his will that not more than 8 rupees was to be expended on it) - 1850 Water-color painting of the tomb of Aurangzeb at Khuldabad in Maharashtra by William Carpenter (1818-1899), 1850-1856. The simple grave of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, ruled 1658-1707, comprises a stone slab on a wooden platform. As a devout Sunni Muslim, Aurangzeb followed the Prophet Muhammad's doctrine that a grave should be unadorned and open to the sky. The tomb lies within the courtyard of the shrine of the Sufi saint Shaikh Burham-u'd-din Gharib (died 1331). This disciple of Nizam ud-Din Auliya of Delhi was buried at Khuldabad near Aurangabad, the Mughal capital in the Deccan, and a long-standing centre of Sufi practice and thought. A cotton sheet, as shown in the drawing here, usually covers the grave of the emperor. Lord Curzon and the Nizam of Hyderabad had a marble railing erected around the grave in 1911. Copyright The British Library Board
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