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These monuments lie outside Ajmeri Gate of Shahjahanabad.
They consist of a large enclosure of arcaded apartments with a gate on the
east and a three domed mosque on the west, with
an enclosure of perforated stone screens, both on the latter's north and
south.
Ghazi-ud-Din Khan's grave is one of the three in the southern enclosure.
Red sandstone has been used as facing veneer in most of the monuments.
Ghazi-ud-Din Khan was an influential courtier during the reigns of
Aurangzeb and his son and ultimate successor Shah 'Alam I (1707-12). His
son, Mir Qamar-ud-Din was appointed the governor of the Deccan by Muhammad
Shah and became the founder of the dynasty of the Nizam of Hyderabad.
The arcaded apartments were used as a 'madrasa', which became first the
Anglo-Arabic School and later the Anglo-Arabic College, and is now known
as the Delhi College.