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	<title>#shefta #ghalib # hazrat nizamuddin #hazratnizamuddinbasti # grave #bangash #poetry#urdu &#8211; Rana Safvi</title>
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		<title>Nawab Mustafa Ali Khan Shefta (1809-1869 AD)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shayad issi ka naam hai muhabbat Shefta Ek aag si hai seene ke andar lagi huyi Perhaps this is what is called love Shefta A fire, which is lit inside my chest Mustafa Ali Khan Shefta Nawab Mustafa Ali Khan Shefta (1809-1869 AD), was a famous poet and critic. He was a contemporary of Mirza [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shayad issi ka naam hai muhabbat Shefta<br />
Ek aag si hai seene ke andar lagi huyi<br />
Perhaps this is what is called love Shefta<br />
A fire, which is lit inside my chest<br />
Mustafa Ali Khan Shefta</p>
<p>Nawab Mustafa Ali Khan Shefta (1809-1869 AD), was a famous poet and critic. He was a contemporary of Mirza Ghalib.<br />
Like the majority of Muslim nobility he was arrested by the British in connection with the Uprising of 1857. He had close ties with the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar.<br />
However, unlike the more unfortunate ones from Kucha Chelan, such as Imam Baksh Sehbai he escaped execution and was sentenced to seven years imprisonment and his estates were seized, only half of which were later restored on appeal.<br />
Later, his son Nawab Ishaq Khan bought the prison and built their family home on it.</p>
<p>Shefta died in 1869 at his house in Kucha Chelaan in Delh and  was buried at his family graveyard at Hazrat Nizamuddin.<br />
He belonged to the famous Bangash family and was buried in their family graveyard which was very close to the Loharu graveyard.<br />
He was a close friend of Mirza Ghalib who stood by him in his hour of need and it’s fitting that they sleep their eternal sleep near each other. Unfortunately, heavy construction in the twentieth century has resulted in many changes and since no headstone or marker indicates his grave, we don’t know which one it is.<br />
Whenever i go to Chausath Khamba i just recite a fatiha for all the souls there.<br />
As per my understanding the Bangash family graveyard is behind Chausath Khamba. That area has many graves.<br />
Ghalib&#8217;s tomb is separated from the Chausath Khamba by a wall.</p>
<p>Excerpt from: &#8220;The Forgotten Cities of Delhi: Book Two in the Where Stones Speak trilogy&#8221; by Rana Safvi.<br />
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<p>image 1&amp;2 &#8211; unidentified graves in that area<br />
image 3- Chausath Khamba<br />
Image 4- Ghalib&#8217;s tomb</p>
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		<title>Statuette of a man with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skin,ca. 8th century B.C. ~ Met Museum</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 8th century BC the Mesopotamiams were making this!. Gallery Text : This statuette group, carved in the round, was found with five other statuettes with similar imagery. The six statuettes were excavated in and just below two arched niches built into the wall of a room at Fort Shalmaneser, a royal building at Nimrud [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In 8th century BC the Mesopotamiams were making this!.</p>
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<p>Gallery Text :</p>
<p>This statuette group, carved in the round, was found with five other statuettes with similar imagery. The six statuettes were excavated in and just below two arched niches built into the wall of a room at Fort Shalmaneser, a royal building at Nimrud that was probably used to store booty and tribute collected by the Assyrians while on military campaign. Those found just below the niches could have fallen when the palaces were destroyed during the the final defeat of Assyria at the end of the seventh century B.C. Originally, these objects were attached to long ivory plinths and exhibited in the arched niches, perhaps arranged in a procession of foreigners bringing different animals and animal skins as tribute to the Assyrian king. A frontally facing male, striding to the right with his lower body in profile, grasps the horns of an oryx (a species of desert-dwelling antelope) that strides behind him. The male figure’s eyes, necklace, and armlet were carved to receive colored glass or semiprecious stone inlays. He wears a short kilt belted with a long sash, embroidered with decoration including two uraei (mythical, fire-spitting serpents), zig-zags, wavy lines, small squares, rosettes, diamonds, and circles. A monkey, whose fur is rendered with short incisions, sits erect on his left shoulder and grasps his short curly hair which bears traces of orange-red paint. Although his right arm does not survive, it was probably extended to support the elaborately patterned leopard skin draped over his right shoulder. The monkey, leopard skin, and oryx suggest that this piece represents a Nubian bringing luxury goods in the form of live animals and animal skin as tribute to the Assyrian king.</p>
<p>Built by the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II, the palaces and storerooms of Nimrud housed thousands of pieces of carved ivory. Most of the ivories served as furniture inlays or small precious objects such as boxes. While some of them were carved in the same style as the large Assyrian reliefs lining the walls of the Northwest Palace, the majority of the ivories display images and styles related to the arts of North Syria and the Phoenician city-states. Phoenician style ivories are distinguished by their use of imagery related to Egyptian art, such as sphinxes and figures wearing pharaonic crowns, and the use of elaborate carving techniques such as openwork and colored glass inlay. North Syrian style ivories tend to depict stockier figures in more dynamic compositions, carved as solid plaques with fewer added decorative elements. However, some pieces do not fit easily into any of these three styles. Most of the ivories were probably collected by the Assyrian kings as tribute from vassal states, and as booty from conquered enemies, while some may have been manufactured in workshops at Nimrud. The ivory tusks that provided the raw material for these objects were almost certainly from African elephants, imported from lands south of Egypt, although elephants did inhabit several river valleys in Syria until they were hunted to extinction by the end of the eighth century B.C.</p>
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