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Almost 800 years old, it is also the oldest surviving Islamic tomb in India - the mausoleum of Prince Nasiruddin Mahmud (r. 1227-1229 CE), brother of Razia Sultan and eldest son of Sultan Iltutmish, the third ruler of Delhi’s Slave Dynasty.
The capital city of India has been a witness to the history of the country since many ages. It has seen civilisations prosper and decline, dynasties come and go, great rulers born and die, and monuments built and broken down. And in all of this, a small player was the Mamluk Dynasty, also known as the Slave dynasty. It was the first of the five dynasties that together formed the Delhi Sultanate.
In 1191, Mu'izz ad-Din Muhammad Ghori of the Ghurid Empire (in present-day Afghanistan) led his army towards the Indian subcontinent in view of expanding his empire.
In 1206, Muhammad of Ghor was assassinated. Since he had no children, his empire split into minor sultanates led by his former Mamluk generals. A Mamluk was a soldier of slave origin who had converted to Islam. Taj-ud-Din Yildoz became the ruler of Ghazni, Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khilji got Bengal and Nasiruddin Qabacha became the sultan of Multan. Qutubuddin Aibak became the sultan of Delhi, and that was the beginning of the Slave dynasty or Mamluk dynasty.
Aibak also initiated the construction of Delhi's earliest Muslim monuments, the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque and the Qutb Minar. However, his reign as the Sultan of Delhi was short-lived as he died in 1210 and his son Aram Shah rose to the throne, only to be assassinated by his slave-commander Shams-ud-din Iltutmish in 1211.
While Aibak and his son ruled from Lahore, Iltutmish shifted the capital to Delhi. His forces further captured Bihar in the 1210s and invaded Bengal in 1225. His eldest son Nasiruddin Mahmud served as the governor of Awadh and Bengal. An efficient administrator, Nasiruddin was the heir-apparent and Iltutmish was grooming him to be his successor.
But unfortunately, in 1229, Nasiruddin died quite unexpectedly in Bengal. Historians differ as to the reason for his death - was it assassination or sickness. He was brought to Delhi and his remains buried. Iltutmish built a grand mausoleum over it in honour of his beloved son in 1231.
The tomb is in the centre of the walled courtyard-like enclosure and is an underground chamber or ‘cave’ (ghari) covered by a flat, octagonal roof that rises four feet from the ground. The western wall of the complex is colonnaded and has a qibla (prayer wall) that has an exquisite mihrab (niche) fashioned out of marble with inscriptions from the Quran. This is probably a later addition.
Nasiruddin’s grave, and two others, are located in the underground chamber and can be approached by winding stairs made of stone. After your eyes grow accustomed to the partial darkness, you can clearly see the three graves, all of them unmarked. While it is believed that the tallest tombstone is that of Nasiruddin, there is no inscription or other marker to confirm this. No one knows who is buried in the other two graves.
If you’re up to braving thorny vegetation and uneven ground, you will come upon a handsome cenotaph or chhatri not far from the Sultan Ghari complex. It is one of a pair, the other having fallen to the ravages of time. These chhatris marked the graves of Sultan other Iltutmish’s sons, Ruknuddin Feroze Shah and Muizzudin Bahram Shah.
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