Heritage record
Talpur Graveyard
SindhTombProtected
Talpur graveyard is located near Lund village, it can be accessed from Shadi Large town which lies about 05 km to the south-west via Badin-Naukot road. The graveyard belongs to Manikani and Bijrani Talpurs (Manik and Bijar Khan both were brothers and sons of Mir Suleman Khan), the Manikani Talpurs ruled Mirpur Khas and descended from Mir Manik. The graveyard is in a ruined condition and encroached by locals. Presently the remains of two canopies and some old and recent graves are surviving. Both canopies are ruined, the super structure of the canopies had collapsed and lying beside the graves. Both canopies were originally constructed with yellow carved stones and erected on a double platform. There were two graves in the first canopy, one grave belonged to Waliya Talpur whereas the second grave was also with a name but not legible.
- Record ID
- 10031
- Province / territory
- Sindh
- District
- Badin
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Tomb
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 24.64938, 69.20775 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Shiekh, Nilofer. (2021). Documentation of the Heritage Sites and Monuments of Sindh. Endowment Fund Trust for Preservation of the Heritage of Sindh.
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