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At the junction of the Yamuna and Ganges rivers where there was a place of Hindu pilgrimage (Prayag) but no city, Akbar founded a fort and a city in a site then covered with forests. He named it Illahabas. Subsequently, this name was changed to Illahabad by Shahjahan, then Allâhâbâd by the British invaders. From the beginning, in accordance with the unifying, peaceful and tolerant ideal of Akbar, this new city was a multicultural place where Hinduism, Islam and Christianity coexisted, An ideal questioned nowadays by the conquering and supremacist ideology of the Hinducracy who, wishing to change all the names of Indo-Islamic cities, invented the name of «Prayagraj», claiming that it was the «original» name «changed» by Akbar the Great. But the «locals» will continue to call the city by its real name and to call themselves with pride «Allahabadis».
As most often in North and Central India, the most interesting monuments for the historian and the art lover are the Indo-Islamic monuments (Akbar Fort, Khusrau Bagh, Jama Masjid) and the Indo-Saracenic Raj ones (Allâhâbâd University, Colleges), often of less good taste (Public Library, All Saints Cathedral), as well as the Allâhâbâd Museum.
The Hindu pilgrimage called Prayag is a muddy and dusty space crowded with tents, cheap sellers and miserable beggars, off which the devotees bathe at the confluence (sangam) of the two rivers Ganges and Yamuna, to which they add a third imaginary or «spiritual» river, Saraswati, because it is mentioned in the Vedas that they still assimilate today to indisputable historical texts.
At the junction of the Yamuna and Ganges rivers where there was a place of Hindu pilgrimage (Prayag) but no city, Akbar founded a fort and a city in a site then covered with forests. He named it Illahabas. Subsequently, this name was changed to Illahabad by Shahjahan, then Allâhâbâd by the British invaders. From the beginning, in accordance with the unifying, peaceful and tolerant ideal of Akbar, this new city was a multicultural place where Hinduism, Islam and Christianity coexisted, An ideal questioned nowadays by the conquering and supremacist ideology of the Hinducracy who, wishing to change all the names of Indo-Islamic cities, invented the name of «Prayagraj», claiming that it was the «original» name «changed» by Akbar the Great. But the «locals» will continue to call the city by its real name and to call themselves with pride «Allahabadis».
As most often in North and Central India, the most interesting monuments for the historian and the art lover are the Indo-Islamic monuments (Akbar Fort, Khusrau Bagh, Jama Masjid) and the Indo-Saracenic Raj ones (Allâhâbâd University, Colleges), often of less good taste (Public Library, All Saints Cathedral), as well as the Allâhâbâd Museum.
The Hindu pilgrimage called Prayag is a muddy and dusty space crowded with tents, cheap sellers and miserable beggars, off which the devotees bathe at the confluence (sangam) of the two rivers Ganges and Yamuna, to which they add a third imaginary or «spiritual» river, Saraswati, because it is mentioned in the Vedas that they still assimilate today to indisputable historical texts.
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