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Photo 1002/33(1768)

Record Id:

041-003135519

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003133616

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100026192681.0x000af7

LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 1002/33(1768)

Title:

Afzal Khan's wife's Tomb, Bijapur. Photographer: Cousens, Henry

Scope & Content:

Genre: Architectural Photography

Described in Henry Cousens, 'Bijapur and its architectural remains' (A.S.I., Imperial series, vol. XXXVII, Bombay, 1916), p. 98: 'The reputed graves of Afzal Khan's wives, situated in a grove of trees, are on a large masonry platform, with the remains of a large tank before it, known as the 'Muhammad Sarwar'. On the platform are eleven rows of graves, all being those of females, amounting, in all, to sixrty-three, with an open empty grave which would have made the sixty-fourth. These have been so regularly placed at equal intervals, and are all so uniform in size and design, that they appear to have been made for persons who had all died at the same time. Tradition tells us that, Afzal Khan being so impressed with the prediction that he would not return to Bijapur, and believing he would not require his worldly goods any longer, had all his wives drowned before setting out, and that all but one, who escaped, were buried here; hence the empty grave.'

Subjects = Indian architecture

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003133616
040-003135496
041-003135519

Is part of:

Photo 1002 : Archaeological Survey of India Collections: Indian Museum Series. Photographer(s): Joseph Daviditch Melik Beglar, Shepherd and…
Photo 1002/33 : Archaeological Survey of India Collections: Indian Museum Series (volume 33, nos. 1746-1806: Bombay). Photographer(s): Cousens, Henry

Photo 1002/33(1768) : Afzal Khan's wife's Tomb, Bijapur. Photographer: Cousens, Henry

Hierarchy:

032-003133616[0033]/040-003135496[0023]/041-003135519

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 1002

Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

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Techniques:

Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print

Start Date:

1880

End Date:

1889

Date Range:

1880s

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