{"id":20423,"date":"2024-02-13T07:16:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T01:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20423"},"modified":"2025-04-06T01:14:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T19:44:04","slug":"hastsal-minar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/hastsal-minar\/","title":{"rendered":"Hastsal Minar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Hastsal Minar<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Location: It is located in a small village of\u00a0western Delhi.<\/li>\n<li>Construction of the minar (or tower) was finished in 1634 during the reign of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.<\/li>\n<li>It is also known as\u00a0Mini Qutab Minar.<\/li>\n<li>Among the locals, it is also known as Hastsal Ki Laat and Kaushal Minar.<\/li>\n<li>Architecture\n<ul>\n<li>It was constructed using\u00a0lakhori bricks and clad with\u00a0red sandstone.<\/li>\n<li>The minar is 17 metres (five storeys) tall, standing on a square platform and with an\u00a0octagonal body.<\/li>\n<li>A staircase inside the five-storey tower led to the domed Chhatri pavilion at the top.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It has three storeys, each with a reducing diameter, and is accessible through a narrow staircase<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Shah Jahan utilised Hastsal as one of his hunting lodges during the 17th century.<\/li>\n<li>Present condition:\n<ul>\n<li>In 2018, the minaret was deemed as\u00a0Grade A in heritage value and was given the permission to be conserved under Phase IV of Delhi government\u2019s project to protect lesser-known monuments in the capital.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Lakhori bricks ?<\/h3>\n<p>These are also known as Badshahi bricks, Kakaiya bricks, Lakhauri bricks which are flat, thin, red burnt-clay bricks, originating from the Indian subcontinent that became an increasingly popular element of Mughal architecture during Shah Jahan, and remained so till early 20th century.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/delhi\/hastsal-minar-shrouded-in-mystery-a-mughal-era-symbol-of-glory-now-a-picture-of-neglect-9156500\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Hastsal Minar: Shrouded in mystery, a Mughal-era symbol of glory now a picture of neglect<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hastsal Minar  is located in a small village of western Delhi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}