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    Dargah of Sheikh Raju Qattal in Khuldabad, Maharashtra

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    Shri Niwas or the House of Mirrors in Jaipur’s City Palace

    Shri Niwas or the House of Mirrors in Jaipur’s City Palace

    Kanishka statue in Mathura museum

    Kanishka statue in Mathura museum

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    Difference between Gandhara and Mathura School of Art

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    The tiled staircase in Ali Qapu Palace in Isfahan, Iran

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    St John in the Wilderness Church in Nainital

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      Dargah of Sheikh Raju Qattal in Khuldabad, Maharashtra

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      AkshayVat in Allahabad/ Prayagraj

      AkshayVat in Allahabad/ Prayagraj

      Helical stepwell in Pavagadh area of Gujarat

      Mysore Silk and Tipu Sultan

      Mysore Silk and Tipu Sultan

      Lord Buddha statue in Chandigarh Museum

      Akbar’s Inscription in The Ranakpur Jain Temple

      Neelkanth Temple in Kumbhalgarh

      Neelkanth Temple in Kumbhalgarh

      Vijai Stambh in Chittorgarh Fort

      The importance of River Yamuna in Vrindavan

      The importance of River Yamuna in Vrindavan

      Tajuddin Baba of Nagpur or Shahenshah-e Haft-e Aqleem Hazrat Baba Tajuddin

      Tajuddin Baba of Nagpur or Shahenshah-e Haft-e Aqleem Hazrat Baba Tajuddin

      Shri Niwas or the House of Mirrors in Jaipur’s City Palace

      Shri Niwas or the House of Mirrors in Jaipur’s City Palace

      Kanishka statue in Mathura museum

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      Shahji ka Mandir, Vrindavan

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      Gopinath Mandir in Vrindavan

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      The Govind Deva temple in Vrindavan

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      Difference between Gandhara and Mathura School of Art

      Difference between Gandhara and Mathura School of Art

      The tiled staircase in Ali Qapu Palace in Isfahan, Iran

      The tiled staircase in Ali Qapu Palace in Isfahan, Iran

      St John in the Wilderness Church in Nainital

      St John in the Wilderness Church in Nainital

      A mural in Chehul Sutun, Isfahan, Iran showing battle between Nadir Shah and Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah

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      Ghalib ‘s poem asking Bahadur Shah Zafar to increase his honarium for writing the history of Mughal Empire in Persian poetry

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      Royalty has always loved being exalted and Zafar was no different. In 1850, he commissioned Mirza Ghalib to idolize the history of Mughal Empire in Persian poetry and conferred upon him the titles of “Dabir-ul-Mulk”(Intellectual of the Country) and “Najm-ud-Daulah” (Star of the Nation). Along with these Royal titles came an honorarium payable bi-annually. Ghalib, who was continuously in debt, would rather have a monthly remuneration. One day while in attendance in the Royal Court, Ghalib, who was aware of the Emperor’s soft corner for adulating poetry, beseeched him in a longish elegy to convert his bi-annual honorarium into a monthly one by convincing him that the hitherto practice of paying twice a year was a slur on Mughal generosity :

      ae shehenshah-e-aasmaan aurang, ae jahaandaar-e-aaftaab aazaar

      baar-e-naukar bhi ho gaya sadd-shukr, nisbatein ho gayiin mushakhkhas chaar

      na kahoon aap se toh kis se kahoon, mudda-a-e-zaroori-ul-izhaar

      kuchh khareeda nahin hai ab ke saal, kuchh banaaya nahin hai ab ke baar

      raat ko aag aur din ko dhoop, bhaad mein jaaein aise lail-o-nahaar

      meri tankhwaah jo muqarrar hai, uskey milney ka hai ajab hanjaar

      rasm hai murdey ki chhe-maahi ek . . . aur chhe-maahi ho saal mein do baar

      bas ke leta hoon har maheene qarz, aur rehti hai sood ki takraar

      aap ka banda aur phiroon nanga ! aap ka naukar aur khaaoon udhaar !

      meri tankhwaah kijiye maah-ba-maah, ta na ho mujh ko zindagi dushwaar

      tum salaamat raho hazaar baras, har baras ke ho’n din pachaas hazaar

      O Emperor ! Adorner of Throne, O the sovereign shining like sun

      Thanks a lot now I am an employee too and four relationships are identified with you

      Whom shall I tell if not you, what is necessary for me to say

      Nothing have I bought this year, nothing have I acquired this time

      Fire in the night, sun in the day, doomed be such days and nights

      The salary that has been fixed for me, there is a strange way of its payment

      Like the dead are counted once in six months, even this six-monthly practice is followed twice a year

      I have to take loan every month, and repeatedly have to pay interest

      Your servant and go about naked ! Your employee and living on loans !

      Make my salary payable month by month, so that life is not difficult for me

      May you live for a thousand years, and fifty thousand days each year bears

      Within minutes an order was passed converting Mirza’s bi-annual honorarium into a monthly one.

      ( translation is not mine but from the net. I posted it on my Facebook in 2013 and can’t find the link today)

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