Tomb of Shaykh Changal, , India

Tomb of Shaykh Changal. On the overgrown ramparts of the medieval city, overlooking the old moat, is the tomb of Shaykh ‘Abdullah Shah Changal, a warrior saint. The tomb has been rebuilt, but the inscription, now incorporated into the compound gate, is written in Persian and dated 1455. A record of historical interest, it recounts the Shaykh\'s arrival in Dhar and his conversion of Bhoja to Islam after the local people had committed an atrocity against the small community of Muslims who had settled in the city in the earliest days of Islam. The story does not so much refer to the celebrated Bhoja but to a rising interest in Bhoja\'s biography in the fifteenth century and the attempts made at that time to appropriate his legacy in Sanskrit and Persian literary sources.