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The Shrine of the Holyfootprint in Delhi ANTHONYWELCH THE SHRINE OF THE HOLYFOOTPRINT IN DELHI The Mughal emperor Awrangzeb (1658-1707) was ings, people, landscapes, ceremonies, flora, and fauna. fiercely passionate about his own brand of justice, and His Reminiscences 0/ Imperial Dehlie was an enticing book he liked to dispense it. After overthrowing and impris­ designed to prepare Emily for her return to India and oning his father ShahJahan (1628-58) and disposing of her father's horne three years later.2 Relying on local his­ three brothers, a son, and a nephew, he set out to make torians for his information, Metcalfe presents a text that his accession to the imperial throne an event to be pays more attention to colorful histories than to individ­ remembered by lawbreakers: five hundred thieves were ual Delhi buildings, but the illustrations are documents brought before the walls of the shrine of Qadam Sharif of primary importance.3 Metcalfe was fascinated by the (the Shrine of the Holy Footprint) in Delhi and exe­ founding ofwhat his nineteenth-century sources called cuted. The event made a big impression on the Venetian "the dargiih" (a saint's shrine) and by the relic that made physician Niccolo Manucci, long resident at the Mughal it sacred and suitably exotic, though he brings his ac­ court: count carefully to a elose with a self-righteous demon­ stration of British rectitude and power: [The emperor1 weil knew that liberality and generosity are necessary to a prince; but if not accompanied by jus­ tice and sufficient vigor they are useless; rather do they The Durgah Qudum Shureef or Shrine of the Holy serve to the perverse as occasion for greater insoIence .... Foot is situated about one mile to the n.w. ofDahly. It is so Thus, after the festival, he sent an order to decapitate five denominated from a Slab within the Building said to bear hundred thieves, thereby terrorizing the perverse. These the impression of the Foot Print of the Mohummudan executions were to take place in front of the mosque Prophet Mahomet. called Cadam Racul (Qadam-i Rasul) - that is to say, The Tradition is that in the time of the Emperor Feroze "Footsteps of the Sent" - because it has a stone on which Shah - about five centuries ago - a celebrated Devotee two footmarks are cut, for which the Mahomedans have and a Disciple ofthe Emperor's was deputed to Mecca (to great veneration. 1 which all True Mohummadans are bound to make one Pil­ grimage, ifthey hope for Salvation) to obtain from the Ca­ liph of that Place a Khillut or Dress of Honor. Manucci's fleeting reference is to the Qadam Sharif, The boon was gran ted, and in addition as a mark of built to shelter an impression of the Prophet's foot in a high consideration, the Slab in question was also con­ block of stone. It was one of the most sacred and visited signed to the Care of the Devotee. pilgrimage sites in seventeenth-century Delhi, and Man­ It was brought to Dahly. The Emperor and all his nobles proceeded to a distance of 15 Miles from the City to do ucci's comment is the first elear reference to it since its Honor to this precious Relic. It was escorted with much founding in the fourteenth century. With its relic of the Pomp and finally deposited by order of the Emperor in Prophet - Islam's preeminent mler, lawgiver, and the Royal Treasury. Subsequently, the prince Futteh Khan, judge - the shrine was a fitting location for Awrangzeb a son of the Emperor, having been permitted to select from the Treasury what he deemed most valuable, to underscore in copious blood his understanding of claimed possession of the Relic.The Emperor refused to the connection between imperial power and divine law. bestow it, considering it as his own exclusive Property, but One hundred and eighty six years after the five hundred decreed that it should be placed over the Remains of the heads rolled in front of the shrine, it turns up again. In one who should first demise. 1844 Sir Thomas Metcalfe, the British Resident at the To the Prince's lot it fell and the Emperor fulfilled his Promise and around the Grave has arisen the celebrated court of the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah (1837- Shrine commenced by Feroze Shah but enlarged and 58), compiled an illustrated manuscript for his daugh­ embellished by successive kings and men of piety. ter Emily, born in India in 1830 but sent horne to Originally it was intended to form the Sepulchre of only England for schooling when she was five. For his now men of exalted Rank or of great Sanctity. In modern times but few of either are to be found and consequently the fourteen-year-old child, her father wrote an account of exclusiveness has been much entrenched upon. Of those Delhi and its historic architecture and hired accom­ oflater days who have been interred there was the Nawab plished Indian artists to provide watercolors of build- Shumsoodin Khan of Ferozepoor who instigated the mur- THE SHRINE OF THE HOLY FOOTPRINT IN DELHI 167 der of the lamented Wm. Fraser. His body having been Qadam-Sharif. A tank with marble screen around it has conveyed direct to the Shrine from the scaffold on which been built near it. The footprint of the Prophet is washed he met an ignominious Death.4 by its water which is collected as sanctified and taken away by the visitors. An annual fair is held here on the 12th of Rabic al-awwal. Thousands of Malang Faqirs assemble and If Metcalfe's words all but ignore the architecture, the perform ecstasies in front ofits gate.5 illustration does not (fig. 1). A marble-paved courtyard is flanked by pillared arcades with remnants of stone According to Sayyid Ahmad Khan, who also calls it a dar­ railings along the roofline and with ribbed domes at the gah, the Qadam Sharif, founded in the fourteenth cen­ ends. In the center is a polygonal structure, and through tury, was a repository of spiritual power and popular the doorway can be seen a cenotaph covered with a adulation during the reigns of ShahJahan and Awrang­ cloth. The entrance is brilliantly decorated in floral pat­ zeb, and continued to be a major pilgrimage center in terns, and four chhatris (cupolas resting on pillars) with the nineteenth century when the relic's blessed run-off four-sided pyramidal domes stand over each side. While water was dispensed to the faithful. It was also part of a the rest of the structure is painted white, a dull gray wall far larger architectural complex than Metcalfe indi­ circles the tomb's base, and the tiny human guard to the cates: it included a maktab (school), mosque, baoli (water right implies that this wall and the whole complex were tank), and other buildings. Standing in the same spot of great size and height, though the wall is, in fact, only inside the shrine,the artist Mirza Shah Rukh Bek cor­ 140cm high. roborates in his picture (fig. 2) much ofthe information Two years later in his Athar al-Sanadid, the great Urdu in Metcalfe's illustration: the domes are ribbed; the rail­ scholar, Sayyid Ahmad Khan, is far more informative ing is intact; the halls depend upon massive single and about the actual complex of buildings that constituted double piers; the entrance to the tomb is ornate and Qadam Sharif: wrapped around with the same circular wall. Three of the chhatris are sharply delineated; the dome of the This famous dargah is the tomb of Prince Fateh Khan, son fourth is ineptly shown as if it were a peaked roof. Peo­ ofFiroz Shah. He died in 776 (1374) and was buried here. pIe can be seen in the pillared halls, and a figure stands His father had a school, a mosque, and other buildings just inside the tomb's doorway; they create a less grandi­ built around this tomb. A great tank was also dug near its enclosing wall; it is still intact. It is said that as a result of ose and far more accurate human scale than the picture some miracle, footprints of the Prophet Hazrat Muham­ from Metcalfe's Reminiscences. mad were permanently made in stone slabs and one of Late-twentieth-century Delhi finds the shrine of them bearing a footprint of the Prophet was brought to Qadam Sharif much altered, both from these nine­ India, and this stone was placed at the grave of his son by Firoz as a mark of sanctity. Hence it became famous as the teenth-century representations and from its origins un- Fig. 1. Shrine ofQadam Sharif. Artist unknown. Illustration for Fig. 2. The Shrine ofQadam Sharif. Illustration by Mirza Shah Thomas Metcalfe's Reminiscences oj Imperial Delhi. (Photo: from Rukh Bek far Sayyid Ahmad Khan's Athiir al-saniidid. (Photo: Sonia Lochner, "Ruins of Power: Picturesque Portraits of Sul­ from Sonia Lochner, "Ruins ofPower: Picturesque Portraits of tanate Architecture," M.A. thesis, University ofVictoria, 1990) Sultanate Architecture," M.A. thesis, University of Victoria, 1990) .
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