{"id":10266,"date":"2019-03-12T10:43:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T10:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/?p=10266"},"modified":"2019-03-12T10:43:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T10:43:58","slug":"a-memory-of-a-famous-hindu-from-lahore-lala-mela-ram-1876-and-1886-rai-bahadur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/?p=10266","title":{"rendered":"A MEMORY OF A FAMOUS HINDU FROM LAHORE &#8211; LALA MELA RAM 1876 AND 1886 RAI BAHADUR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A MEMORY OF A FAMOUS HINDU FROM LAHORE<\/div>\n<div>LALA MELA RAM 1876 AND 1886 RAI BAHADUR<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_10268\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10268\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lala-Mela-Ram-Lahore-Rai-1876.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10268\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lala-Mela-Ram-Lahore-Rai-1876.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lala-Mela-Ram-Lahore-Rai-1876.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lala-Mela-Ram-Lahore-Rai-1876-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lala Mela Ram Lahore Rai 1876<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lala Mela Ram was a famous son of Lahore. His factory, his house as well as his many things were left in Lahore. The Mela Ram road is still there near Data Darbar Sahib and is called Darbar road now. A huge safe was salvaged by people, which included a host of documents. Stocks worth lakhs of rupees, photographs of his family, invitation cards (including the investiture of British Kings and Queens) from London, an astro globe of horoscope, a Kama Sutra manuscript with illustrations, as well as the certificates of his proclamation as RAI and as RAI BAHADUR. Chughtai Museum just acquired these two documents for record archives, at a great cost.\u00a0 The resources did not allow acquisition of other objects.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_10269\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10269\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lala-Mela-Ram-Lahore-Rai-Bahadur-1886.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10269\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lala-Mela-Ram-Lahore-Rai-Bahadur-1886.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lala-Mela-Ram-Lahore-Rai-Bahadur-1886.jpg 480w, http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lala-Mela-Ram-Lahore-Rai-Bahadur-1886-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lala Mela Ram Lahore Rai Bahadur 1886<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The same are presented as a homage of peace from Lahore to the Hindus of India. Live in peace!<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10267\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lala-Mela-Ram-building-Lahore.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10267\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lala-Mela-Ram-building-Lahore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lala-Mela-Ram-building-Lahore.jpg 800w, http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lala-Mela-Ram-building-Lahore-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lala-Mela-Ram-building-Lahore-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lala Mela Ram building Lahore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A MEMORY OF A FAMOUS HINDU FROM LAHORE LALA MELA RAM 1876 AND 1886 RAI BAHADUR Lala Mela Ram was a famous son of Lahore. His factory, his house as well as his many things were left in Lahore. The Mela Ram road is still there near Data Darbar Sahib and is called Darbar road &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/?p=10266\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A MEMORY OF A FAMOUS HINDU FROM LAHORE &#8211; LALA MELA RAM 1876 AND 1886 RAI BAHADUR<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10270,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions\/10270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}