Lahore Museum, which was established in 1894 is an best place which showcases many historic items from the wonderful Indo Pak heritage and archaeology. The museum is located on the Mall, which is the most famous road of Lahore and a extremely particular and distinctive historic report which is a property of Lahore Museum, is displayed appropriate in front of the museum. This is known as as ‘The Zamzama Cannon’ or ‘The Zamzama Gun’.
This massive gun was cast by Shah Nazir upon the instructions of Shah Wali Khan, who was the prime minister in the reign of the Afghan King Ahmed Shah Durrani. The gun has the date of manufacture, names of the monarch and the technician along with verses in Persian molded with floral patterns all more than the barrel. At the time of its manufacturing, Zamzama Gun was the largest gun ever produced in Indian Sub Continent. An appeal was created before the individuals for Lahore for the donations for the manufacturing of Zamzama Gun. The metal composition of Zamzama Gun consists of brass and copper. The people also donated many household products and some metal was acquired from these utensils. Zamzama Gun was firstly used by Ahmed Shah in 1761 in the battle of Panipat. In 1762 Zamzama Gun was seized by Bhangis in a battle and named it as Bhangianwala Toap. After some years it was grow to be beneath the occupation of Charat Singh who snatched it from Bhangi Sardars. From Charat Singh, Zamzama Gun was carried off by the Pashtuns of Chatha who took it to Ahmadnagar where it became an apple of discord among the Pathan brothers Ahmad Khan and Pir Muhammad.
With the passage of time, in the course of to usage at different war occasions , Zamzama Gun was broken badly. At final it was brought back to Lahore and it was placed outside Delhi Gate till 1860. Presently , Zamzama Gun or Zamzama Cannon at Lahore Museum is kept on the Mall which is also known as Shahrah-e-Quaid-e-Azam with Department of Fine Arts, University of Punjab on one side, and National College of Arts (NCA) and Lahore Museum on the other.
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