Zoon is buried in Bihar

A place near Khilanmarg,

After being buried in his ancestral village Mitrigam, Mahjoor was later to be buried one more time. His body was exhumed and with full State honours reburied by the side of Habba Khaton’s grave in Athwajan on the outskirts of Srinagar, or by the side of what was believed to be the grave of Habba Khatoon.

Later research was to prove that the 16th century famous commoner-poet-queen Habba Khatoon, Zoon, was in fact buried at Biswak village in Nalanda, Bihar alongside the grave of her husband, Yusuf Shah Chak.*
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*Came across the info. in T.N . Kaul’s Poems of Mahjoor.

6 Replies to “Zoon is buried in Bihar”

    1. Her grave is situated @ Kashmiri chak, beswak, PS Islampur, Nalanda BR. Yasir Rashid Khan Is current mutawalli of Kashmiri chak waqf Estate and responsible for annual urs ceremony.

  1. I have mentioned my source and that book was first published way back in 1988. And there is lot of literature available on the subject. You can find it mentioned in:

    Medieval Indian literature: an anthology, Volume 3. By K. Ayyappapanicker, Sahitya Akademi. And besides it is believed that Mohammed Yousf Taing has discovered her actual grave in Bihar.

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