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Badshapur is one of the 4 sub-division of Gurugram district of Haryana state, situated on the Gurugram-Sohna road (NH-248A). It is named after the Badshahpur Fort, which in turn was the abode of the wife of Mughal emperors Bahadur Shah Zafar.
The catchment area has been obliterated due to construction and encroachment. The neglected unkempt flies-ridden stepwell is without any protective wall. INTACH had offered to preserve the stepwell and also written to the Government of Haryana to reserve it. INTACH could not preserve it due to lack of agreement on terms with the owner who wants to maintain it himself. Will history be buried for a road? A Gurgaon village waits, Indian Express, 18 January 2018.
In January 2018 SSAA and INTACH discovered that HUDA is in the process of constructing a road which might lead to the destruction of this stepwell. HUDA officials agreed to review it and if needed will alter the road to avoid risk to the stepwell, deputy commissioner assured to have it preserved.
Badshahpur is quite a large constituency it includes nurpur jharsa, Manesar, Farrukhnagar, and some urban areas of Gurgaon. Villages under Badshahpur are Palda, Sakatpur, Narsinghpur, Mohammadpur Jharsa, Sadhrana, Garhi, Harsaru, Palam Vihar, Mullaheda, Sector 15 Part 2,Sec - 67, Sec - 68, Gadoli, Naharpur, Rampur, Aklimpur, Kadipur, Sarhaul, Shikohpur, Teekli, sector 10A
Daultabad, Dundahera, Wazirpur, Hamirpur, Jhund Sarai, Dhanawas, Dhorka, Bhawani Enclave, Dhana Manesar, Saidpur, Mohammadpur, Patli, Bhangrola, kankrola, hayatpur, Judola, Narsighpur, Nurpur, Baskusla Manesar, Chandan Nagar Dhani, Basai Enclave, Sikandarpur Ghosi, Nathupur, DLF Phase 3, Rail Vihar, Sector 57, Greenwood City Sector 45, Tigra, Darbaripur, Hasanpur, Begampur Khatola, DLF Phase 2, Dankot, Ikbal Pur, Kaliyawas, Sultanpur, Sikandarpur Ghosi, Darbaripur, Khandsa, Islampur, Jharsa, Nathupur, Palam Vihar, Ramgarh and Kherki Daula all significant landmarks of Gurgaon city fall under Badshapur assembly constituency.
Akhara Stepwell
Akhara Stepwell, also Akhara Baoli, is a stepwell in inside a functional akhara on the same road as the "Badshahpur Baoli", only few km away, in Badshahpur. Constructed with local materials, such as stone, all these baolis of Gurugram district have mixed Ahir-Rajput-Jat-Mughal architectural style of 18th-20th centuries with Islamic pointed arches and cusped or segmental arches. Forgotten stepwells fine examples of our heritage, Hindustan Times, 16 September 2019. Both baolis in Badhshapur are based on the square plan with three side steps and a rectangular single steps to move down into the baoli. A stepped pond was usually built near a temple and the stepped well was built on travel routes or the outskirts of towns by nobles, queens, rich traders and philanthropists of the community to provide drinking water to the passers-by. In 2018, activists filed the case against the church which tried to illegally grab and destroy this legally protected baoli through fraud.
Dhumaspur Stepwell
Dhumaspur Stepwell, also Dhumaspur Baoli, is a 200 years old Zila Parishad-managed five-story stepwell on the "Jail Road" in Dhumaspur village near Badshahpur in Gurugram. If was built on 2 kanal land from the stones brought from Makrana and Jaipur mines. The allegations of the ancient Bawdi disappearing on church management, Dainik Jagran, 11 January 2018. In 2018, activists filed the case against the church which tried to illegally grab and destroy this legally protected baoli through fraud.
Assembly constituency
Badshapur assembly constituency is dominated by Yadav/Ahir voters which are nearly 45,000 in number. Rakesh Daulatbad is the sitting MLA from Badshahpur. Caste composition of Badshahpur is 45,000 Ahir/, 32000 , 20,000 , 15,000 , 10,000 , 11,000 Punjabi people and 10,000 Banias 7,000 Prajapati.
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