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Sarai Amanat Khan
Sarai Amanat Khan. Geographically 29 km south-west of Amritsar, it's a lifetime away if the distance was to be measured in terms of people's awareness. It is one of a chain of caravan sarais built at regular intervals on the Grand Trunk Road by the Mughals to make the otherwise difficult Lahore-Agra journey an easier one for travellers.
To facilitate this, a vast road network came up mainly during the reign of Jehangir in first three decades of the 17th century. The blueprint for the Grand Trunk Road, however, had already been created on ground by Sher Shah Sur during his brilliant but brief reign. Jehangir, however, is credited with improving the road, creating the first caravan sarais and building highway distance markers in the form of "kos minars", the remains of which still dot the countryside in Haryana and Punjab.
Sarai Amanat Khan
Sarai Amanat Khan. Geographically 29 km south-west of Amritsar, it's a lifetime away if the distance was to be measured in terms of people's awareness. It is one of a chain of caravan sarais built at regular intervals on the Grand Trunk Road by the Mughals to make the otherwise difficult Lahore-Agra journey an easier one for travellers.
To facilitate this, a vast road network came up mainly during the reign of Jehangir in first three decades of the 17th century. The blueprint for the Grand Trunk Road, however, had already been created on ground by Sher Shah Sur during his brilliant but brief reign. Jehangir, however, is credited with improving the road, creating the first caravan sarais and building highway distance markers in the form of "kos minars", the remains of which still dot the countryside in Haryana and Punjab.