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Heera Mandi I Lahore I The Diamond Market I Red-Light Area With A Royal Past I Gift of Mughals

#heeramandi #heeramandilahore #lahore Heera Mandi I Lahore I The Diamond Market I Red-Light Area With A Royal Past I Gift of Mughals Special Thanks: Muhammad Ali (Please subscribe his channel ‪@Explorewithalibhai‬) Music: Binu Kumar, Kerala, India ‪@SoundSFX‬ (Under License) Please Note: For two things, I would like to apologize to my viewers that I have got a picture wrong. One is that instead of Ghulam Abbas, the picture of Intizar Hussain has been placed and the other is that this "Anandi" was "Afsana" not a novel. Heera Mandi in the Pakistani city of Lahore is a dowager on life support. Located in the walled city or the old city, the neighborhood is now the country's oldest red- light district. Heera Mandi is just like any other bazaar by day while commercial sex workers earn a livelihood in the cubby holes on the upper floors of the grain shops at night. However, almost unrecognizable today, the locality was once a royal symbol of Lahore. In 16th century the Mughal Empire was consolidating its control over North India, including the city of Lahore. From 1584 to 1598, Lahore was the capital of the Empire, during the reign of Emperor Akbar. Not only was the city's ruined citadel which was built in 1267 by Sultan Ghiyas-ud-din Balban of Delhi Sultanate was re-fortified, laying the foundations for the revival of the Lahore Fort, but several monuments were constructed across the city. An area south of the Lahore Fort was developed as a residential neighborhood for attendants and servants of the royal court and the Emperor. Since it was close to the fort, it was referred to as 'Shahi Mohalla' or 'Royal Neighborhood'. Soon, the area became home to tawaifs, who were professional entertainers associated with the royal court. The tawaif culture, which flourished during the Mughal era, included talented artistes who performed mujra, the sensual royal dance of the medieval Indian court. The tawaifs were trained in music, etiquette and dance by the best ustaads (masters) of the time, and the women of Shahi Mohalla were a social symbol for the elite; their presence at ceremonies was considered a statement of class and sophistication. Although professional entertainers often double as sex workers, the tawaifs of Shahi Mohalla were not like that. The nobles would send their children to them to learn etiquette and the ways of the world. Brothels first appeared in Lahore during the Afghan attacks. The invading army had carried away several women from the towns they sacked in the subcontinent between 1748 and 1767. Abdali's troops set up two brothels, one in present-day Dhobi Mandi and the other in Mohalla Dara Shikoh. A few decades later, the General-turned-Prime Minister of the Sikh Empire, Hira Singh Dogra, felt that the Shahi Mohalla being located in the center of the city, thus, along with hosting the houses of tawaifs it can be used for utilizing the place as an economic Centre like a bazaar. So, after the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1839, he built a food grains market in the neighborhood. It was thus called 'Hira Singh di Mandi' (Market of Hira Singh) or just 'Heera Mandi'. Interestingly, some believe the word heera or diamond refers to the tawaifs of the area, who 'looked as beautiful as diamonds'. In the early 1850s, the plague spread in the walled city and the local British administration shifted their cantonment from Anarkali to Dharampura, outside the old city. There was an attempt to shift the sex workers as well but many stayed back. Despite the cult of prostitution in the area, Heera Mandi retained its reputation as a center of the performing arts. The only difference was that the tawaifs' patrons were no longer emperors and nobles but raes or wealthy men from the city. That's how Heera Mandi earned its nickname ‘Bazaar-e-Husn' (Market of Beauty). Despite the changes in its identity, one thing remained constant in Shahi Mohalla – the culture of the performing arts. As a result, Heera Mandi has raised some outstanding performing artists, including the famous Noor Jahan, Khurshid Begum, Mumtaz Shanti and many others. The dual culture of Heera Mandi - a hub for sex workers as well as of entertainment - continued even after India's Independence. However, when Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq was President of Pakistan, from 1978 to 1988, a rigorous effort was made to end the culture of mujras and sex workers in Heera Mandi. It wasn't a success and, to avoid the crackdown in this neighborhood, many brothels moved to other parts of Lahore. Sadly, this Mughal-era hub of the performing arts has all but lost its essence as the culture of mujras and music is on the verge of extinction. The erstwhile Shahi Mohalla, a royal symbol of the city, now huddles in the shadow of a dark business. Follow us on: Facebook:   / gilanilogs1   Twitter:   / gilanilogs   Instagram:   / zulfiqargil.  . WhatsApp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaBl...