What is the reality of sixty graves?

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Muhammad Anis-Ur-Rahman Khan

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Reality about the 60th graves

Graves are picturised
By Anis-Ur-Rahman Khan

 There can be no denying the special place and importance of Deccan in the promotion of Urdu literature among the people of literature. Maulana Azad National Urdu University's curriculum "History of Urdu Language and Literature" on page 4 states that "Adil Shahi has a special distinction and importance in the history of the Deccan.From 6 to 7 AH, nine rulers of this family ruled the kingdom of Bijapur with great pomp and splendor. Adil Shahi rulers were very fond of literature and fine arts. He highly valued and patronized , scholars, poets, writers and other artisans. Many of the buildings, palaces, cities, towers, mosques, tombs and wells built by them in Bijapur are still preserved and are a memorial to the greatness of Adil Shah. The Adil Shahi rulers were very fair and benevolent.

 Rumors about graves: 

Pointing towards the graves the writer,
Muhammad Anis-Ur-Rahman Khan

In Bijapur, a walled city in the present day state of Karnataka, India, there are several identical graves in the middle of an old building in the middle of a forest and desert near Al-Amin Medical College. It is also known that all these 60 graves belong to the wives of Adil Shah's General (Army Chief) Afzal Khan who were killed by Afzal Khan with his own hands before a battle with Shivaji so that After his death no one else should marry his wives or humiliate them by making them prisoners. The reality of graves Hazrat Muhammad Shaiq Iqbal Chishti, who is fond of the history of Urdu literature, has chosen Urdu as a subject in his IAS examination and has been the beacon of the family of Hazrat Syed Mohammad Hussaini Khawaja Banda Nawaz Geso Daraz.

Same Scene

It is well known that there are sixty graves here, but not sixty-four graves as you enter through the gate, there are eleven graves in the first four rows, six in the fifth row and seven graves in the seventh and eighth. It is clear that all these graves belong to women because all graves have depth towards the top which is usually in women's graves. There are not only graves in this compound but also the tomb platform.There is also a mosque of about the same period and the buildings at the very back of the mosque indicate that it must have been used as a dwelling or resting place because the proper arrangement of water here is still presented Bawli (well). 

Combined Click
By Anis

 All these details can be deduced that this cemetery must have been reserved for the women of the royal family. That Adil Shahi era is a scientific era, the Fighting for the kingdom was a common thing in the time of kings, so how can the commander of this era take a cowardly step full of ignorance? “ I myself has inspected this place, so it can be said that the words of Muhammad Shaiq Iqbal Chishti seem to be speculative. Because Adil Shah's General (Army Chief) Afzal Khan died in November 1659. Even after that, the Adil Shahi rule lasted for 27 years. So why should Afzal Khan need to kill his wives? Such as “Urdu language and literature it is written on page 2 of "History of India" that finally in 1686 Aurangzeb conquered Bijapur and arrested and imprisoned Alexander Adil Shah. 

Thus the kingdom of Bijapur came to an end. “ It should be noted that the said cemetery falls under the category of archeology but unfortunately no plaque has been erected by the archeologists here to provide accurate information about the cemetery to the people so that the correct history is known to the public and tourists. Wajid is one of the tourists from Jharkhand who came to the cemetery complaining about this .Bano, Shamshir Ali, Zafar Iqbal and Arif Raza, among others, say that the archeology department should pay immediate attention to this so that tourists like us are not misled and we can increase our knowledge with accurate information.