It has a bulbous dome supported on a circular drum and decorated with petalled design at the base. There are four kiosks at the front. Within the enclosed walls, there are three graves placed in the center beneath the dome.
The structure has been made on a raised platform. Cupola chattirs have been built at the corners. The central dome is surmounted by a small cupola structure. One of the cupola chattris is missing at the corner. It has a pointed arch with niches on either side.
The plinth and the tomb is built up of lakhauri bricks and lime mortar.
Unusually named Ustad-Shagird tombs in Punjab The Economic Times.
Ustad Means Teacher and Shagird means Student
both wete Very Good Architects of this era in C.16th-17th Cent A.D
It has Many old Heritage Buildings around it
Some are Listed Here :
🔆Tomb of Shagird
🔆Tomb of Ustad
🔆Tomb of Mir-I-Miran
🔆Jahaaz Haveli of Diwan Todar Mal Ji
🔆Aam Khas Baag
🔆Gurudwara Fatehgarh Sahib
There are Two more untraced Tombs next to Tomb of Ustad towards City Side
#Thread
Fort BalianWali (Quila Balianwali)
Near Bathinda ,#Punjab (Malwa)
Built year 1764
Built By : Gajpat Singh Sidhu a Maharajah of Jind and Maternal GrandFather of Maharajah Ranjit Singh of Lahore Punjab
in Ruins : Now a police Station
#Sikh #Heritage #Jat #Sidhu #Bathinda
Built 1764 by Gajpat Singh (King of Jind Riyasat)
12 km NW of Maur Mandi is the village of Balianwali.
It appears to be a normal village but in its centre is a fort built by the maternal grandfather of #MaharajaRanjitSingh
#Balianwali actually belonged to Alam Singh, brother of Gajpat Singh but when he died falling off a horse,so the estate passed on the Gajpat Singh in 1764 who built this mud and brick fort in response to strengthen his position.
SUB JOGINDER SINGH OF 1 SIKH WAS HOLDING THIS LOC WITH A PLATOON MINUS STRENGTH.PORTERS WERE BEING USED TO SUPPLY AMMUNITION FROM KLEMTA ONWARDS TO IB RIDGE.
PORTER, MR TASHI,RESIDENT OF LYO BASTI,78 YEARS OF AGE, IS AN EYEWITNESS TO THE VALIANT ACTS OF SUB JOGINDER AND HIS MEN.
SUB JOGINDER SINGH AND HIS MEN KEPT THE CHINESE AT BAY WHILE THEIR AMMUNITION LASTED. BY 1400HR, THEIR AMMUNITION WAS ALMOST FINISHED. AT THIS JUNCTURE, SUB JOGINDER SINGH ORDERED MR TASHI TO LEAVE THE AREA AND MOVE
BY THIS TIME, 👇
It lies between the #Shivalik foothills of outer #Himalayas and Indo- Gangetic alluvial plains of #Punjab. The structure is situated in a semi- urban setup.
The structure was built in the early 18th Century CE.
It is a single-storey structure built on rectangular platform. The structure has a semi-circular arched entrance with a thatched roof and a courtyard in front.