Zainabad

Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R)

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Burhanpur district map

Burhanpur-Zainabad in Burhanpur, MP

Zainabad (जैनाबाद) is a village in Burhanpur tehsil in Burhanpur district in Madhya Pradesh.

Variants

• Jainabad (जैनाबाद)

Location

Jainabad is a Village in Burhanpur Tehsil in Burhanpur District of Madhya Pradesh State, India. It belongs to Indore Division . It is located 4 KM towards East from District head quarters Burhanpur. Jainabad Pin code is 450331 and postal head office is Shahbazar Burhanpur. Jaisinghpura ( 1 KM ) , Khadkod ( 2 KM ) , Dariyapur ( 2 KM ) , Goti Maholla ( 3 KM ) , Patidar Colony ( 3 KM ) are the nearby Villages to Jainabad. Jainabad is surrounded by Khaknar Tehsil towards East , Raver Tehsil towards west , Muktainagar Tehsil towards South , Pandhana Tehsil towards North.

History

Malik Nasir seized the hill fort of Asirgarh by treachery and thereafter fixed his headquarters at Asirgarh. On hearing the news of the capture of Asirgarh by Nasir Khan, Saint Zain-ud-din, the spiritual guide of his family, came from Daulatabad to congratulate him on his success. On his advice Nasir built two cities, Zainabad and Burhanpur on opposite banks of the Tapti. Zainabad was named after Zain-ud-din and Burhanpur after Sheikh Burhan-ud-din, a famous saint of Daulatabad, whose body is said to be buried at Burhanpur¹ Zain-ud-din, Firishta states, encamped on the eastern bank of the Tapti, while Nasir with his family occupied the western bank of the river. When the latter tried to persuade the former to accompany him to Asirgarh, the saint refused to cross the river saying that he was not permitted to do so by his preceptor Saint Burhan-ud-din of Daulatabad. Zain-ud-din is said to have begged of Nasir Khan “to build a town on the eastern bank of the river, and call it after himself, Zainabad, and a city on the western, where he was himself encamped, to be called Boorhanpoor, in honour of the famous Sheikh Boorhan-ood-deen of Dowlutabad, and he recommended also, that he should make the latter his capital; both of which towns were accordingly built; and Boorhanpoor afterwards became the capital of the Farooky dynasty.”²

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1. Firishta, op. cit., pp. 290-91. The story is, however, of doubtful authenticity for Burhan-ud-din’s tomb is at Roza, near Daulatabad. It is not unlikely that Burhanud-din, who is buried at Burhanpur and after whom the city is named was a different person.

2. Forsyth, basing his statement on the manuscript of Saint Zain-ud-din gives a different version. He says it was Malik Raja, who was asked to build Burhanpur. But he could not do so owing to his pre-occupations and administrative problems. Later, Nasir Khan fulfilled the desire of his father, For details see settlement Report of Nimar 1870, p. 25.