Jafarganj Cemetery is located in

Murshidabad Murshidabad (), is a town in the Indian States and territories of India, state of West Bengal. This town is the headquarters of Lalbag subdivision of Murshidabad district. It is located on the eastern bank of the Hooghly river, Bhagirathi Riv ...

, West Bengal, India.

Geography

Location

Jafraganj Cemetery is located at . The

Namak Haram Deorhi Namak Haram Deorhi (Bengali:নিমোক হারাম দেওরহি, lit:''Traitor's Gate'') was the palace of Mir Jafar. It is located just opposite to the Jafarganj Cemetery in the ''Lalbagh'' area of the town of Murshidabad and nea ...

House of Jagat Seth Jagat Seth was a wealthy merchant, banker and money lender family from Murshidabad in Bengal during the time of the Nawabs of Bengal. Though not at the same scale, but the influence exercised by this family in the finances of the Mughal Empir ...

, Nashipur Rajbari,

Kathgola Palace Kathgola Palace is a historical building belonging to the Dugar family at Kathgola in the Murshidabad-Jiaganj Community development blocks in India, CD block of Murshidabad district. It now houses a museum. Etymology The place was earlier called ...

and

Tomb of Azimunissa Begum Tomb of Azimunissa Begum is located at Azimnagar (oid Murshidabad), in the Murshidabad district. According to the List of Monuments of National Importance in West Bengal the Tomb of Azimunissa Begum is an ASI Listed Monument. Geography Locat ...

are all located nearby. One can reach the temple town of Rani Bhavani at

Baranagar Baranagar (Bengali language, Bengali: বরানগর) is a city and a municipality in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area ...

, on the other side of the Bhagirathi, by country boat from Ajimganj. Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in Murshidabad city. Most of the places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map. A few, without pages yet, remain unmarked. The map has a scale. It will help viewers to find out the distances.

History

Jafargaj Cemetery was built by

Mir Jafar Mir Jafar ( – 5 February 1765), was a commander-in-chief or military general who reigned as the first dependent Nawab of Bengal of the British East India Company. His reign has been considered by many historians as the start of the expansion ...

over an area of 3.51 acres within an enclosure of waved walls, about half a mile north to the Nizamat Fort Campus and inside the campus of

. It hosts the graves of the later Nawabs of Bengals of the Najafi dynasty, starting from Mir Jafar, and their family members while

Khushbagh Khushbagh (also spelled as Khoshbagh; literally "Garden of Happiness") is the garden-cemetery of the Nawabs of Bengal, situated on the west bank of the Hooghly river, about a mile from its east bank, in the Murshidabad-Jiaganj CD block in Lalb ...

, which was built by Nawab

Alivardi Khan Alivardi Khan (1671 – 9 April 1756) was the fourth Nawab of Bengal from 1740 to 1756. He toppled the Nasiri dynasty of Nawabs by defeating Sarfaraz Khan in 1740 and assumed power himself. During much of his reign Alivardi encountered frequen ...

, hosts the graves of the Nawabs of Bengal belonging to the Afshar dynasty and their family members. At present, this graveyard is controlled and maintained by the

Archaeological Survey of India The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is an Indian government agency that is responsible for archaeological research and the conservation and preservation of cultural historical monuments in the country. It was founded in 1861 by Alexander ...

. It is said that earlier there was a "Kitchen Garden" at the site of this cemetery which Shah Khanaum Begum (Mir Jafar's wife and Alivardi Khan's sister) was very fond of. The Jafarganj Cemetery has the graves of the family members of the Nawab of Bengal. It hosts the graves of Nawab Nazim

Humayun Jah Sayyid Mubarak Ali Khan (; 1759 – 6 September 1793), better known as Mubarak ud-Daulah (spelled also as: Mubarak ud-Daula), was the Nawab of Bengal and Bihar. He was the son of Mir Jafar and Babbu Begum. He ascended the throne on 21 March 177 ...

, his wives Umdat-un-nisa Begum, Amir-un-nia-Dulhan Begum, Sultana Ghetiara Begum and Rais-un-nisa Begum; Nawab Nazim Walla Jah, his wife Nazib-un-nisa Begum; Mir Jafar and his wives Shah Khanaum Begum, Babbu Begum and Munny Begum; Nawab Nazim Mubarak ud-Daulah, his wife Faiz-un-nisa Begum; Syud Ahmed Nazafi, (Mir Jafar's father); Muhammad Ali Khan (Mir Jafar's brother); Bohu Begum, wife of Nawab Nazim Ali Jah; Nawab nazim Nazam ud-Daulah; Nawab Nazim Saif ud-Daulah; Babar Ali; Mehr Lekha Begum, (also known as Guiti Afroz Mahal), wife of Humayun Jah, who was previously a ''mut‘ah'' wife and Ismail Ali Khan and Ashraf Ali Khan (the sons-in-law of Mir Jafar).

Gallery

File:The musnud of Murshidabad (1704-1904) being a synopsis of the history of Murshidabad for the last two centuries, to which are appended notes of places and objects of interest at Murshidabad (1905) (14590189449).jpg, This is a picture of Jaffraganj Cemetery from the book, ''The Musnud of Murshidabad (1704-1904)'', published in 1905. Jaffraganj Cemetery is described as “the family burial ground of Meer Jaffer, containing the tombs of the Nawabs Nazim, from Meer Jaffer to HumajunJah”. File:Jaffraganj cemetery at Murshidabad.jpg, Jafaraganj Cemetery in 2013 File:MirJafarTomb.jpg, Tomb of

File:MunniBegum.jpg, Tomb of

Munni Begum Nadira Begum (), better known by her pseudonym title, Munni Begum () is a Pakistani vocalist and ghazal singer. Early life Munni Begum was born Nadira Begum in Murshidabad (now in West Bengal, India) in 1946. The third child of seven children. ...

File:TombAshrafAliKhan.jpg, Tomb of

Ashraf Ali Khan Sayyid Ashraf 'Ali Khan Bahadur (; before 1759 – 24 March 1770), was Nawab Nazim of Bengal and Bihar. He was the fourth son of Mir Jafar. Life He was adopted by his aunt, Nafisat un-Nisa Begum Sahiba (Manjhli Begum). On 11 March 1770, he wa ...

File:MubarakAliKhan.jpg, Tomb of Mubarak Ali Khan I File:HumayunJahTomb.jpg, Tomb of Mubarak Ali Khan II (Humayun Jah) File:Jafarganj Cemetery 4.jpg, Tomb of Hira and Panna, two messenger pigeons File:Jafarganj Cemetery 5.jpg, Mosque inside the cemetery

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