Ancestral Graveyard of Jam of Lasbela (Babra)

The ancestral graveyard of Jam of Lasbela, the Chief Minister of Baluchistan is situated about 6.5 km to the North of Bela Town. The place is locally known as Tharle (Large Garden). It is spread over an area of about 4000 sq. m. The graveyard contains a tomb constructed with burnt bricks, a group of four graves in paramedical form and a pillared canopy constructed in buff sand stone in Chaukhadi type, a group of two lime plastered graves and in a separate enclosed wall, the graves of the forefathers of Jam of Lasbela. Close study of this graveyard reveals that it is similar to Chaukhandi type graveyard and also similar to those which are found in other areas of Sind and Baluchistan and are generally dated to the 17th/18th centuries CE the details of the tomb and the other Chaukhandi type graves are enumerated below: -1: Unknown tomb in burnt bricks, 2: Chaukhandi type graves, 3: Graves under a Pillared Canopy, 4: Lime plastered graves, 5: Graves constructed within the enclosed wall.