India’s heritage hit by Delhi ‘development’ demolitions - World - NEW DELHI: For nine centuries, Indians prayed at the forest shrine of Baba Haji Rozbih, a revered Sufi saint whose grave is one of the capital Delhi’s oldest.
The dargah also houses a famous Sufi landmark where Baba Farid Ganj-Shakkar, one of the founders of the Chisti Sufi order, performed his Chillah-e-Makoos a challenging spiritual practice in which a person hangs upside down using a rope, often in a well, as per historian Rana Safvi.
The demolitions come at a sensitive time in India, as Hindu nationalists have been emboldened to claim centuries-old Islamic monuments for the country s majority faith
For nine centuries, Indians prayed at the forest shrine of Baba Haji Rozbih, a revered Sufi saint whose grave is one of the capital Delhi's oldest Islamic sites.The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which described Baba Haji Rozbih's shrine on its heritage list in 1922, said the cave-dwelling mystic was "revered as one of the oldest saints of Delhi".