1852.] The Mausoleum of the Nuwabs Ali-Verdi Khan, fyc. 507 



He was the Naib or Deputy of the Nuwab Moobarick-ood-Dowlah, 

 the fourth in succession from the traitor Meer Jaffier placed on the 

 musnud of Bengal by Lord Clive after the battle of Plassy, and a 

 person of some consequence during the time of Warren Hastings. 

 He died in A. H. 1194 (A. D. 1797). 



The Inscription on the tomb of his son Bairam Jung is as follows : 



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He died in A. H. 1269 (A. D. 1785). 



Rabia Begum was a daughter of Haji Mahommed, the brother of 

 Ali-Verdi Khan, who was Prime Minister at the Court of the Nuwab 

 Sujah Khan in 1725. 



A small raised tomb to the left of the centre platform, marks the 

 resting place of Kali Begum, (V. K Plan 1), the daughter of Nuwab 

 Mahommed Ameen Khan, and niece of Ali-Vardi Khan, probably by 

 his wife's side, as Ali-Verdi is said to have had only one brother. 



Passing through a neat three-arched gateway, the mausoleum en- 

 closure is entered ; it is like the outer quadrangle in its arrangement 

 of trees and garden shrubs, but contains besides the mausoleum, a 

 mosque and two buildings allotted to the establishment kept up by 

 Government for the care of the tomb. One of these buildings, (vide 

 Plan 1) is the kari-khanah or store-house, the other, the tuhbeel- 

 khanah or treasury, but portions are also occupied by certain ladies, 

 the descendants of Ali-Verdi's family. 



On entering the gate, three graves are shown on the left, in which 

 are said to have been buried a son in law, and two daughters of 

 Sooraj ood-Dowlah, but according to a written statement left bv the 



