#tajbagh #tajuddinbaba #nagpur #bhonsle #chador #SufiThursdays #sufism #sufisaint #sufi #dargah – Rana Safvi https://ranasafvi.com A blog exploring India's Ganga Jamuni Tehzeeb or its rich multi plural multi cultural heritage via its adab, tehzeeb & tareekh Wed, 26 Apr 2023 13:23:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://ranasafvi.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/image-7-75x75.jpg #tajbagh #tajuddinbaba #nagpur #bhonsle #chador #SufiThursdays #sufism #sufisaint #sufi #dargah – Rana Safvi https://ranasafvi.com 32 32 179612229 Tajuddin Baba of Nagpur or Shahenshah-e Haft-e Aqleem Hazrat Baba Tajuddin https://ranasafvi.com/38493-2/ https://ranasafvi.com/38493-2/#respond Wed, 26 Apr 2023 13:20:03 +0000 https://ranasafvi.com/?p=38493

The Baba whose followers included a maharaja, and in whose urs the first chador is from the Bhonsle family.
I also got a bulawa

Tajuddin Mohammed Badruddin was born in January 21, 1861 in Kamptee near Nagpur. A spiritual child he was initiated into the Sufi path while studying by Hazrat Abdulla Shah.
He was instructed “Eat less, sleep less and speak less. Read Quran”, by Hazrat Abdulla Shah and that led him to isolating himself.
At age 20 ( for some reason) he joined the Nagpur army as a soldier but did not like it & while posted in Sagar started spending a lot of time with another Sufi saint Hazrat Baud Saheb.
He resigned from the army.
After bayat with Hazrat Daud sahib he reached a stage of wajd & started roaming the streets without clothes.
His relatives brought him back to Kamptee & when medicines failed to get him out of the stage of Oneness with God, in 1892 he was admitted into a mental asylum.
Very soon his fame spread as people claimed to see him outside the asylum.

Later Maharaja Bahadur Shrimant Raghoji Rao Bhonsle, the Maharaja of Nagpur became a disciple of Hazrat Tajuddin Baba & appealed to the Governor for his release against a surety of ₹2000 & brought Baba to his ‘Palace’ which then became the ‘centre of Baba’s divine work.’
in 1925 when Baba fell very sick & his devotees wanted to get a last glimse of him the palace was opened to all.
Baba passed away a few days later but remains in the hearts of his devotees.
His dargah in Nagpur is very impressive and a haven for people of all faiths, class and creed.
the area is called Taj Bagh

]]> https://ranasafvi.com/38493-2/feed/ 0 38493 Interior of the Hammam at the Red Fort, Delhi, Furnished According to English Taste,ca. 1830–40 ~ Met Museum https://ranasafvi.com/interior-of-the-hammam-at-the-red-fort-delhi-furnished-according-to-english-tasteca-1830-40-met-museum/ Tue, 26 Mar 2019 04:36:36 +0000 https://ranasafvi.com/interior-of-the-hammam-at-the-red-fort-delhi-furnished-according-to-english-tasteca-1830-40-met-museum/

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It was not unusual for the resident British of nineteenth-century Delhi to buy ruined or abandoned Mughal or Sultanate buildings and monuments, which they then converted from their original functions to habitable spaces. This painting illustrates the conversion of a hammam (bath house) into a living room, complete with a piano or harpsichord, a bench, and an assortment of glass bottles and other objects. The white floor inlaid with flower motifs resembles that of the hammam at the Red Fort in Delhi, where a British national had been installed by the early nineteenth century.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/453350

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Gallery Text :

It was not unusual for the resident British of nineteenth-century Delhi to buy ruined or abandoned Mughal or Sultanate buildings and monuments, which they then converted from their original functions to habitable spaces. This painting illustrates the conversion of a hammam (bath house) into a living room, complete with a piano or harpsichord, a bench, and an assortment of glass bottles and other objects. The white floor inlaid with flower motifs resembles that of the hammam at the Red Fort in Delhi, where a British national had been installed by the early nineteenth century.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/453350

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