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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|13th-century minaret in Delhi, India}}<br />
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'''Chor Minar''' or 'Tower of Thieves' is a 13th-century [[minaret]] with 225 holes,<ref>[http://asi.nic.in/asi_monu_alphalist_delhi.asp Kharehra] List of Monuments - Delhi, [[Archaeological Survey of India]].</ref> situated just off [[Sri Aurobindo Marg|Aurobindo Marg]] in the [[Hauz Khas]] area, in [[New Delhi]].<ref name=wcities>[http://www.wcities.com/en/record/,319689/684/record.html Chor Minar]</ref><ref>[http://www.easyindia.com/travel/destination/delhi.htm Delhi Monuments - Hauz Khas] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629054149/http://www.easyindia.com/travel/destination/delhi.htm |date=2011-06-29 }}</ref> The Chor Minar is nearly 700 to 800 years old.<ref>{{Cite web|title=700 साल पहले दहशत थी इस मीनार की|url=https://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/metro/delhi/other-news/the-history-of-chor-minar-of-delhi-used-to-punish-thieves/articleshow/68467337.cms|access-date=2021-10-04|website=Navbharat Times|language=hi}}</ref> it's also situated in narnaul Haryana near dhosi hills 120&nbsp;km away from Delhi<br />
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== History ==<br />
It was built under the rule of [[Alauddin Khalji]],<ref>[http://www.igougo.com/review-r1335643-Chor_Minar.html Chor Minar]</ref> of the [[Khalji dynasty]] (1290–1320) in the thirteenth century.<ref>[http://ignca.nic.in/asp/all.asp?projectid=sd081cm0001 Chor Minar Info and images] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410231758/http://ignca.nic.in/asp/all.asp?projectid=sd081cm0001 |date=10 April 2009 }} [[Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts]].</ref> Historians suggests that the Khalji king slaughtered a settlement of [[Mongol]] people, nearby, to stop them from joining with their brethren in another Mongol settlement in Delhi, the present day locality of 'Mongolpuri'.<br />
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During the raid of Ali Beg, Tartaq and Targhi (1305), 8,000 Mongol prisoners were executed and their heads displayed is the towers around [[Siri Fort|Siri]]<ref>[http://www.bharatvani.org/books/mssmi/ch5.htm#40a CHAPTER V] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511175936/http://www.bharatvani.org/books/mssmi/ch5.htm#40a |date=11 May 2008 }}<br />
40. "Farishtah, I, 114-15; Barani, 320; Khazain, Habib, 28; Wassaf, IV, 526-27. The walls of the towers popularly known as Chor Minar in modern Hauz Khas Enclave are pierced with 225 holes. In medieval India apertures on the walls of towers were used by Muslims not only as windows but also to display heads of captured and executed prisoners. The custom was to cut off their heads and stick them into those holes, to be seen by everybody. During wars, only the heads of chiefs were displayed; those of common soldiers were simply piled into pyramids."</ref><br />
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== Purpose ==<br />
According to local legends, it was a 'tower of beheading', where the severed heads of thieves were displayed on spear through its 225 holes, to act as a deterrent to thieves.<ref name="wcities" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.victorynewsmagazine.com/TheMinarsAndMinarettesIndia.htm |title=The Minars and Minarettes of India |access-date=13 May 2008 |archive-date=29 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211129104356/http://www.victorynewsmagazine.com/TheMinarsAndMinarettesIndia.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> In case the heads exceeded the number of holes, the less important heads were piled in a [[pyramid]] outside the [[tower]].<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.weforanimals.com/free-pictures/monuments-india/delhi/hauzkhas/hauz_khas-1.htm Image of Chor Minar]<br />
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