Heritage record
Nicholson Monument
PunjabTowerProtected
A British monument was built in the last century to perpetuate the memory of the British Brigadier General John Nicholson who was killed during the liberation war of 1857, by a Muslim freedom fighter named Kale Khan. At Margallah, there is an old cutting through the hill crossing Lahore and Peshawar Road. Margallah has been mentioned by Hisun Tsang in early 7th Century CE and other Muslim historians have also made a mention of it, the road-way is paved with dressed stones while a stone slab inserted into the wall on the side contains an inscription which shows the work was completed in 1083A.H, corresponding with 1672 CE. A Persian inscription of the period of Aurangzeb Alamgir was also recovered from the ancient part. The pavement was no doubt a remarkable achievement in those days.
Photographs: Department of Archaeology & Museums national inventory record, displayed from the official source (doam.gov.pk). Not PWHI photography.
- Record ID
- 6312
- Province / territory
- Punjab
- District
- Rawalpindi
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Tower
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Protected by The Antiquity Act 1975 (As amended in 1992) (instrument: Protected by The Antiquity Act 1975 (As amended in 1992))
- Coordinates
- 33.70281, 72.82490 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Khan, Ahmad Nabi. (1987). Archaeological Sites and Historical Monuments Protected Under the Antiquities Act, 1975. Federal Department of Archaeology & Museums, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad.
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