Exterior Of An Eed-Gâh Near Chaynpore, Bahar, William Daniell, 1 December 1808

Plate 15, part 5. Image from oriental scenery. Chainpur is a small town in west bihar where the best sepoys of the east india company used to be recruited from. The print shows the funerary complex known as the rauza of bakhtiyar khan. Its wall is covered with stucco roundels and motifs typical of the 15th century sultanate style. It was wrongly identified by the daniells as an idgah, an open prayer hall. The print shows one side of the walled compound with a tomb structure inside covered by a dome. Object Type: print. Date: 1 December 1808. Oriental Scenery Part 5 Fig 15