Khushbagh

Khoshbagh
Khoshbagh
	Entrance of Khushbagh
Details
Location	Murshidabad, West Bengal, India
Country	India
Coordinates	24°09′45″N 88°15′32″E / 24.162610°N 88.258911°E
Style	Islamic architecture
Size	7.65 acres
No. of graves	Graves of Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah, Lutfunnisa Begum, Nawab Alivardi Khan, Alivardi Khan's mother and other members of the family of the Nawabs of Bengal
Website	"Khoshbagh".

Khushbagh (also spelled as Khoshbagh; literally "Garden of Happiness") is the garden-cemetery of the Nawabs of Bengal, situated on the west bank of the Hooghly river, about a mile from its east bank, in the Murshidabad-Jiaganj CD block in Lalbag subdivision of Murshidabad district, West Bengal, India.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] Khushbagh hosts the graves of the Nawabs of Bengal of the Afshar dynasty and their family members; while Jafarganj Cemetery hosts the graves of the later Nawabs and their families, starting from Mir Jafar, who belonged to the Najafi dynasty. Khushbagh is the resting place of Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah, his wife Lutf-un-nisa, Nawab Alivardi Khan, and his mother, amongst others.

^ "Information on Khushbagh". Murshidabad.net. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
^ Pratapaditya Pal; National Centre for the Performing Arts; Enamul Haque (1 November 2003). Bengal, sites and sights. Marg Publications. p. 151.
^ Bengal (Volume 86). The Society. 1967.
^ Kalikinkar Datta (1963) [First published 1939]. Alivardi and his times (2nd ed.). Calcutta: World Press. p. 136. His [Alivardi's] dead body was buried at the foot of his mother's grave at Khushbāg on the west bank of the Bhāgrathi opposite Motijhil.