Two tombs stand at Nakodar in Jalandhar district. One holds Ustad Mohammad Momin, a tambura player in the court of Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan, who died in 1623. An inscription suggests work around 1612, under Jahangir. The other holds his pupil, Haji Jamal, and dates to about 1657.
Momin's tomb is square inside and octagonal outside. Jamal's reverses it.
Both carry glazed tilework and frescoes. The tiles are coming away and some of the paintings are gone. Both are protected by the Archaeological Survey of India, among roughly thirty centrally protected monuments in Punjab. The nearby Dakhni Gate and the remains of the Mughal garden Hadironwala Bagh are also decaying.
Twelve kilometres away on the Nakodar-Kapurthala road is Dakhni Sarai, a caravanserai of 124 cells around a courtyard, 180 by 172 metres, with gateways east and west. A Persian inscription attributes it to Nur Jahan Begum, with work spanning 1618 to 1621. Another attribution gives it to Ali Mardan Khan under Shah Jahan. It has no signage and no security.
The two tombs stand together in one enclosure, built forty-five years apart, one for the musician and one by his pupil for himself.
The tilework is the Lahore kashi work of the seventeenth century, and what survives of it on these two buildings is among the better preserved examples in Indian Punjab.
They are protected monuments on the edge of a small town. There is no ticket, no guide and no sign on the road that passes them.