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Bacchawali Tope (literal translation: The cannon which induces child birth) is a cannon which lies in the Nizamat Fort Campus on the garden space between the Nizamat Imambara and the Hazarduari Palace and to the east of the old Madina Mosque in the city of Murshidabad in the Indian state of West Bengal.[1] The cannon consists two pieces of different diameters. The cannon was made between the 12th and 14th century, probably by the Mohammeddan rulers of Gaur. It is stated that one Janardan Karmakar od Dhaka made the cannon.[2] It originally lied on the sand banks of Ichaganj. However, it is unknown that how it came in Ichaganj. It was used to protect the city of Murshidabad from north-western attacks. After the 1846 fire of the Nizamat Imambara the Imambara was rebuilt, then after the completion of the new Imambara the cannon was shifted to its present site by Sadeq Ali Khan, the architect of the sacred Nizamat Imambara under the suggestion of Sir Henry Torrens, the then agent of the Governor General at Murshidabad.
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- ^ Bangla, Jiyo (1 January 1970). "মদিনার পাশেই আছে বিশাল বিখ্যাত কামান যা বাচ্চাওয়ালি তোপ নামেই খ্যাত - জিয়ো বাংলা". JiyoBangla (in Bengali). Retrieved 6 May 2024.