The Rang Ali Shah lane, which is surrounded by graves, in particular on the one side and these graves situate within a compound along with a Masjid and a flower garden in it, thus, the separated boundary of each one, are clearly visible on the map. Besides graves, the area is also completely occupied by the residential buildings. Next, the Shamsher Jang lane leads towards the Shamsher Jang Br toddy palm field, Stables Shamsher Jang Br, workshop Shamsher Jang Br, and Shamsher Jang garden are depicted well. Shamsher Jang Bahadur, a prominent personality, who was served as the attendant of 6th Nizam Mir Mahbub Ali Khan and even included himself one among the four ministers under Salar Jang. His family was related to the Asaf Jahi dynasty and had acquired large estates in the form of Jagirs. The generations belonged this family has conferred the title of Shamsher Jang Bahadur and the person who succeeds next will be in charge managing estates which were hereditary, hence, clearly visible on the map that estate and stables belonged to Shamsher Jang Bahadur family.
To the left side of Shamsher Jang stables, a big garden belongs to Shaukat Jang Br, who was also a leading noble in the Nizam dominion, ranked eleven among the Umrah-I-Uzzam of the state, nobles of the highest distinction come in rank after the Paigah nobles, who were connected with Asaf Jahi dynasty. The family members were given many titles, estates, and other traditional honors. The title of Shaukat Jang is one among other titles were conferred such as Khan Bahadur, Hissam-ud-Daula, Moin-ul-Mulk Bahadur etc. Apart from these, a grave and an Ashur Kahana namely Siddi Imam is showed on the map. Ashur Khana literally means a house of the 10th day Muharram or Shiite house of mourning. A mourning place for Shias during Muharram festival constructed in the memory of Imam Hussain. There are many Ashur Khanas identifiable in the city of Hyderabad, and construction of those was traceable back to the Golconda Sultanate, indeed, indicate the Shiite affiliation of Qutb Shahis.
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