Mir Aslam Khan Baoli (Step Well) |Tomb of Khushal Khan Khattak|
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One of our elder Mr. Noor Zaman wished to be snapshot in front of Khushal khan Tomb: |
Tourism is one of the healthy activity of my life to explore the historical palaces in local areas is our first priority and then KP. It is our best hobby
to discover new places so one day my friend told us that we should planned a tour to khushal khan tomb most of our friends really don't even know that this historical place is situated so near to our own district Swabi
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A fire chimney in a wall of that time now ruined
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to discover new places so one day my friend told us that we should planned a tour to khushal khan tomb most of our friends really don't even know that this historical place is situated so near to our own district Swabi. |
| Main entrance steps ladder goes down to the Well |
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In this picture seems something missing "the stone removed" which could read us history
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| this is the underground safe way for horses |
The English period irrigation office monitoring from here the place known by name "JAGANAT BANGLA" near to Mir Aslam Khan Boli Step Well,
Side view
Steel iron rod in the building seen
An old tree captured in my camera
Entrance gate
Group photo
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Mir Aslam Khan Baoli is located near Akora Khattak. It was built between 1895-1905 by a wealthy contractor, Khan Mir Aslam Khan Khattak, who was the 7th descendant of prominent Pashtun poet, Warrior and Chief of the Khattak tribe, Khushal Khan Khattak. Khan Mir Aslam Khan was fond of social works. According to historians, social works were like his hobby and he built lots of water wells and ‘masjids’ in tehsil Nowshera of district Peshawar and Nagpur Maharashtra British India. From Mughals era, people use to travel and trade on a route which passes through Shaidu village and Akora Khattak, toward Kabul and Kaka Sahib Mazar. On this trade route, there was no source of clean drinking water for travelers. So Khan bought a land on the trade route for water well but later, he decided to construct a ‘baoli’ instead of a simple water well because ‘Baoli’ would also provide travelers a rest place and will protect them from daylight heat in hot summers. As there was no concept of ‘baolis’,
ReplyDeleteKhan Mir Aslam Khan sent an architect from Nagpur, British India, apparently because Khan was engaged in construction business there. The architect easily designed the Baoli for him and construction began near his village, under the supervision of his elder son, Ghulam Nabi Khan.‘Mir Aslam Khan baoli’ is designed beautifully and is divided into two parts. On the left side, it has a deep water-well, which is about two to three stories deep, and on the other side, there are more than 50 stairs, which provide access to ground water of the ‘baoli’. Two interesting things in ‘Mir Aslam Khan baoli’
; first, the stairs have a beautiful entrance and the lower second half of the stairs are covered by a shelter-like stone covering. This stone covering is constructed step wise; as the stairs continue to go down toward the ground water, the stone covering above it, also gets lower step-wise, toward the bottom of the step-well, which exhibits the marvelous architecture skills of the man, who designed it at that time .In ‘Mir Aslam Khan baoli’, as you go down the stairs, the temperature gets lower. It is observed that inside the ‘baoli’, the temperature is 3 to 4 degrees lower than the outside temperature. The aim of this social welfare project was to provide clean water and relief from daylight heat to travelers in hot summers. Another reason for making this a step-well instead of just a simple well was to allow cattle and horses to reach water and to maintain and manage well.
The only raw materials used in its construction are different sized stones and cement of those days. The other four Baoli;s were built in Nagpur or nearby areas in CP British India. When Khan Mir Aslam Khan Khattak Sadaqa-e-Jariyah (Mir Aslam Khan Baoli - Akora Khattak) project was completed, he donated more than 10 Kanals of agricultural land in his village Shaidu for maintenance work of this ‘Baoli’, which wass yet another of his generous contributions. The income of this land was used to pay the maintenance expenses of Khan’s Baoli. Every time I visit this place, it motivates me to work selflessly for the benefit of my fellow humans irrespective of their social status. After all, everyone is equal. This ‘Baoli’ is a symbol of peace and love for humanity. Time is moving fast.
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The above Tep Well/Baoli was not built by Sher Shah Suri and was built by Mir Aslam Khan, Khan of Shaidu for travelers visiting kaka sahib mazar and kabul.
ReplyDeletethank you for correction, the description as written was as it is listen from the local guide
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