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[[File:Jaunpurbridge William Hodges 1774.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Jaunpur Bridge: a plate from '[[William Hodges]]' book 'Select Views in India']] | [[File:Jaunpurbridge William Hodges 1774.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Jaunpur Bridge: a plate from '[[William Hodges]]' book 'Select Views in India']] | ||
[[Mughal Emperor]] [[Akbar]] ordered the construction of the Shahi Bridge, which was completed in the year 1568–69 by [[Munim Khan]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Asher |first=Catherine Ella Blanshard |title=Architecture of Mughal India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ctLNvx68hIC |year=1992 |series=The new Cambridge history of India |volume=1 | [[Mughal Emperor]] [[Akbar]] ordered the construction of the Shahi Bridge, which was completed in the year 1568–69 by [[Munim Khan]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Asher |first=Catherine Ella Blanshard |title=Architecture of Mughal India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ctLNvx68hIC |year=1992 |series=The new Cambridge history of India |volume=1 |issue=4 |location=[[Cambridge]] |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |page=87 |isbn=978-0-521-26728-1}}</ref> It took four years to complete the bridge.<ref name="victorynewsmagazine.com">{{cite journal |last=Makhfi |first=Shahid A |title=Legacy of Sharqi Kingdom of Jaunpur |date=22 April 2003 |url=http://www.victorynewsmagazine.com/LegacyofSharqiKingdomJaunpur.htm |journal=Victory News Magazine |access-date=25 July 2009}}</ref> It was designed by [[Afghanistan|Afghan]] [[architect]] Afzal Ali.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bradnock |first=Roma |title=Footprint India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nWKaR6LbEGcC |year=2004 |edition=13 |publisher=[[Footprint Books]] |location=[[Bath, Somerset|Bath]] |page=193 |isbn=978-1-904777-00-7}}</ref> | ||
==Current use== | ==Current use== | ||
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"The [[inundation]]s have been frequently known to rise even over the bridge in so much that in the year 1774 a whole brigade of the British forces was passed over it in boats." | "The [[inundation]]s have been frequently known to rise even over the bridge in so much that in the year 1774 a whole brigade of the British forces was passed over it in boats." | ||
Rudyard Kipling's poem ''Akbar's Bridge'' mentions this bridge. <ref> | Rudyard Kipling's poem ''Akbar's Bridge'' mentions this bridge. <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_akbar.htm|title = Akbar's Bridge|date = 2 February 2021}}</ref> | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||