Revived from neglect, this tomb of Mughal-era poet, army commander now lights up the night sky
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Built of red sandstone, it is a spitting image of the Humayun’s Tomb — albeit much smaller in size — situated nearby. This is the tomb of Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khanan, or simply Rahim, the commander-in-chief of Mughal emperor Akbar’s army, one of his Navratnas, and a renowned poet. In the 1920s, the Archaeological Survey…
Built of red sandstone, it is a spitting image of the Humayun’s Tomb — albeit much smaller in size — situated nearby. This is the tomb of Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khanan, or simply Rahim, the commander-in-chief of Mughal emperor Akbar’s army, one of his Navratnas, and a renowned poet. In the 1920s, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) provided masonry support to overhanging sandstone blocks on the facade, preventing it from total collapse. According to Ratish Nanda, CEO of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC, India), the tomb was in a very ruinous condition until a few years ago. “It suffered from significant structural failures. There were large cracks in its walls. Lots of portions were completely lost,” he told. The fate of the neglected premises took a turn in 2014, when apart from the ASI, the InterGlobe Foundation came on board with the AKTC as part of the Union Tourism Ministry’s ‘Adopt a Heritage’ scheme for a conservation project that lasted six years. According to an AKTC document, “This has been the largest conservation effort ever undertaken at any monument of national importance in India, and also the first-ever privately undertaken conservation effort under ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’.”
