Date of visit 04-03-2018
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Tomb in Sarai Mughal
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Tomb in Sarai Mughal
Ten
years back Sir Salman Rasheed wrote enlightening writing about Sarai Chamba
and Akbar era tomb near Sarai Mughal.
Sarai
Mughal is a small village that lies hardly seven kilometers from the Head Baloki. Last
year, I traveled to Sarai Mughal to visit one of the tomb sites. Fortunately, along with that tomb, I found remnants of two more historical edifices in Sarai
Mughal Village. Not sure what was the name of Sarai Mughal in the past, but it is named like this due to the presence of a caravanserai in its vicinity.
An arched gateway standing in the middle of the village constructed from Mughal era bricks. Imran Saeed is another brilliant historical writer who has visited this place and he thought
that this could be the only evidence that this place once lies between the
ancient route between Lahore and Multan that was
called Kakkhan Wali Sarak.
The other
landmark, found in this village was ruins of a British-era rest house. The most notable
thing about that rest house was that it was also constructed from Mughal era
bricks. These Mughal era bricks must be taken from the parts of old Sarai building.
Also,
I found many houses in this village which construction done by Mughal era
bricks.