There are seven Bar Sarais (great sarais) are kept in a line before the Guru Ashan. One Chaki/Pradip are lightening in front of each Bar Sarai. There is no statue of any God or Goddess inside the Kirtan ghar. Bhaj Ghar: This is known as Monikut, valuable ornaments of gold and silver are kept in this area.
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Khanna has the largest grain market in Asia, followed by the grain market of Rajpura (Punjab). Khanna is an ancient town which came into existence 500 years back. History reveals that Sher Shah Suri built a number of sarais (inns) at every 12 to 15 miles along the Delhi-Lahore road. One of the sarais was built in this area which is still known as the Purani Sarai.
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The massive trading of Banjara made him one of the richest traders of the country. He constructed wells and ponds after every 10 kilometers on the trade route so that livestock and their companions could easily get water. The archaeological evidence of ponds and wells constructed by Bhai Lakhi are still found in many parts of the country. He also constructed several Sarais (caravanserai) In India and Pakistan, Sarai (plural: Sarais) was originally built for travelers, kings, as well as for caretakers.
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'The Rock Aornos from Huzara. From Nature by General James Abbott 1850' Nalwa was also a builder. At least 56 buildings were attributed to him, which included forts, ramparts, towers, gurdwaras, tanks, samadhis, temples, mosques, towns, havelis, sarais and gardens. He built the fortified town of Haripur in 1822.
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Shatial is an important transit station consisting mainly of shops, rest places, and sarais. It is located west of Chilas in the upper Indus Valley beside the Indus River in Gilgit-Baltistan. Historically it acted as a junction of old routes and byways connecting Swat Valley, Gilgit, Chilas, and Chitral.
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Gardens were also built alongside some sections of the highway. Those who stopped at the sarai were provided food for free. His son Islam Shah Suri constructed an additional sarai in- between every sarai originally built by Sher Shah Suri on the road toward Bengal. More sarais were built under the Mughals.
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It is recorded in the Ming shi that a Chinese explorer, Cheng Ho, visited the city twice in 1421–22 and 1431–33. He later transferred the capital from Pandua to Gaur. The city of Gaur began to be re-populated during his reign. Jalaluddin himself constructed a number of buildings and sarais there.
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It was built by Nawab Ali Vardi Khan in 18th century. The mosque was built along with a Sarai (Rest House). Such combination of mosques and Sarais were built at every 11th mile on journey from Delhi to Ajmer. The 200 old years mosque is located 2 km away from the old tehsil office of Gurgaon.
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Jahangir under his reign issued a decree that all sarais be built of burnt brick and stone. Broad- leaved trees were planted in the stretch between Lahore and Agra and he built bridges overall water bodies that were situated on the path of the highways. The route was referred to as "Sadak-e-Azam" by Suri, and "Badshahi Sadak" during Mughals.Anu Kapur, p.
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Sarai Juk (Little Sarai) was a city on the Ural River. It is often conflated with the other Sarais in historical and modern accounts. This town was the main city of the Nogai Horde, one of the successors of the Golden Horde. Although sacked by the Ural Cossacks in 1580, it was later used as the headquarters by some Kazakh khans.
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Yusuf Sarai is a locality in South Delhi. It lies on the Sri Aurobindo Marg close to AIIMS, New Delhi, and accommodates both residential as well as market places . It is named after historic Yusuf Sarai, one of many sarais (inns or rest houses) which were built in area during and Delhi Sultanate period, including, Katwaria Sarai, Lado Sarai, Sheikh Sarai and Kallu Sarai .
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The people of Delhi carry flowers from the Chandni Chowk to Mehrauli- to shrine of Sufi saint Hazrat Qutubuddin Kaki and the Devi Jogmaya Mandir. The total distance of the Sair (walk) is about 32 km. One can read Delhi's soul in this journey of 32 km from Chandni Chowk to Mehrauli. Along the highway were scattered life giving baolis and sarais to quench the thirst of travellers, built by kings and commoners.
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Katra serves as the base camp for pilgrims who visit Vaishno Devi. It has a thriving tourism industry that offers plenty of hotels, guest houses, restaurants, dhabas, fast-food joints that fit all kinds of budgets. Free accommodation is provided by some registered trusts in the form of "Sarais" for the poor. The number of pilgrims who visit the shrine every year has increased from 1.4 million in 1986 to 8.2 million in 2009.
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Fodder for animals, hot and cold water, and bed steads were provided free of charge. The sarai also had a physician, as well as a resident baker, and a water well located outside of the walls of the sarai. As with many sarais, a small bazaar may have run between each gate. Maharajah Ranjit Singh converted the complex into a cantonment of one of his foreign generals, Musa Farangi, who used to live here with his platoon.
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German Fedorov- Davydov was instrumental in organization of wide scale excavation of the capital Sarai (Sarai Berke and Sarai Djadid, New and Old Sarais), and other cities in the Volga region. G. Fedorov-Davydov continued traditions of pre- revolutionary orientalists - numismatists (H.M.Fren, P.S.Savelyev, and others), contributing to the knowledge in the field, including the birth and development of the Russian monetary system and terminology. German Fedorov- Davydov is an author of about 230 scientific and popular-scientific works, including 26 books.
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The Jorhat Municipal Board, an urban administrative body, began its operations in 1909. Its goals are aimed at providing for the welfare of residents of Jorhat, the second largest city of Assam, a northeastern state within Guwahati of India (located specifically at 26 degrees North, 94 degrees East). Jorhat was previously the capital of the Ahom Kingdom in 1794. As a result of the Sarai Act of 1867, which banned sarais, temporary shelters for travelers whose identities and backgrounds were unknown to the state, from housing anymore of those travelers without keeping records, a union board emerged to enforce local governing and maintenance.
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Nur Jahan According to the Dutch traveller Pelaert her patronage of architecture was extensive, as he notes, "She erects very expensive buildings in all directions- "sarais", or halting places for travellers and merchants, and pleasure gardens and palaces such that no one has seen before" (Pelsaert, pp 50). In 1620, Nur Jahan commissioned a large "sarai" in Jalandhar district twenty-five miles southeast of Sultanpur. It was such an important "sarai" that, according to Shujauddin, " 'Serai Noor Mahal' in local idiom meant some spacious and important edifice." Tomb of Itimaaduddaula Itimaaduddaula died in January 1622, and his tomb has been generally attributed to Nur Jahan.
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As per Rajtirangini of Kalhan, Rajouri emerged as principality in about 1003 C.E. The first ruler of this kingdom was Raja Prithvi Paul. From 1033 to 1194 C.E. Raja Prithvi Paul defended Pir Panchal Pass at the time of incursion of Sultan Mehmud in 1021 C.E. Raja Sangram Paul safeguarded his Principality Rajouri when Raja Harash of Kashmir attacked his country in 1089 A.D. Sangram Paul fought so courageously that Raja Harash was obliged to return from Prithvi Paul fort without capturing Rajouri. Jaral Muslim Rajas rebuilt Rajouri city at the time of their rule. A number of forts, sarais, mosques and baradaris were constructed.
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Badarpur once housed one of many sarais (caravan resthouses), known as Sarai Badarpur, along the historics Grand Trunk Road, probably built during the period of Jahangir in the 16th century. Prior to that, Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq built the Qutub-Badarpur Road as he established the fifth historic city of Delhi, Tughlaqabad, in the 13th century AD, which connected the city to the Grand Trunk Road. The road is now known as the Mehrauli-Badarpur Road, an important if congested road connecting Badarpur in southwest Delhi to Mehrauli in south Delhi. The original village of Badarpur lies east of the Meethapur- Palla road which passes from Aali village (to the north) down to Palla village to the south.
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This method of fighting & dying for the cause of retaining honour was called "SAKA".The Mughal Throne by Abraham Eraly pg 33,Earlier Babur offered Shamsabad to Medini Rai instead of Chanderi fort as it had great importance in conquering Malwa but he refused and choose to die fighting In 1540 it was captured by Sher Shah Suri, and added to the governorship of Shujaat Khan. The Mughal Emperor Akbar made the city a sarkar in the subah of Malwa.Abū al-Fazl ibn Mubārak, The Ain - I - Akbari, Volume 2, page 196 According to Ain-e-Akbari, the autobiography of Akbar, Chanderi had 14000 stone houses and boasted of 384 markets, 360 spacious caravan sarais (resting place) and 12,000 mosques.
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A 2005 listing by Business Standard daily placed him at 35 among the richest Indians. Neotia served as the chairman of Balrampur Chini Mills Limited and sat on the boards of several Boutique Hotels India Limited, Ganpati Medical Institute, Ambuja Educational Institute, RKBK Limited, Heritage Palaces and Sarais and Dwarikesh Sugar Industries. He was involved with many educational institutions such as Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, New Delhi Institute of Management and Banaras Hindu University as a trustee or board member and was a member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of India, Ananta Aspen Centre, Asiatic Society and Victoria Memorial Trust. He was one of the promoters of Jnana-Pravaha, a cultural institution founded by Bimla Poddar, and served as its chairman.
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