Badshahpur
Badshapur is one of the 4 sub-division of Gurugram district of Haryana state, situated on the Gurugram-Sohna road (NH-248A). It is named after the Badshahpur Fort, which in turn was the abode of the wife of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar.
Badshahpur, tucked on the Gurugram‑Sohna stretch (NH‑248A), is a punchy antidote to the glass‑and‑steel monotony of Cyber City, but it demands a spare hour and a willingness to hitch rides on rickshaws that sputter past the sprawling housing colonies of Sushant Lok and DLF Phase III. The only monument worth the few metres of walk is Badshahpur Fort, a modest red‑brick enclosure that once housed the wife of Bahadur Shah Zafar; it offers no guided tours, just a crumbling rampart and a rust‑ed cannon that makes a decent backdrop for Instagram if you’re patient enough to wait for the traffic to thin at 8 am. For a genuine bite, slip into the roadside dhaba on the left after the Bypass turn‑off, order a steaming plate of butter‑chicken with garlic naan and a glass of lassi – the cooks here have been perfecting the recipe since the 1990s, and the price is still under ₹150. Skip the over‑priced parking at the nearby Mall of India; instead park your rented scooter at the petrol pump near the Masonic Lodge and walk. The best time to visit is late autumn (late‑October to early‑December) when the heat recedes and the air carries a faint scent of mustard fields beyond the highway. One night’s stay in a budget guesthouse at Sohna Road lets you catch the sunrise over the fort’s silhouette before the suburb’s hum swallows the silence, and two days is honest if you also want to explore the nearby Biodiversity Park at Sector 55, which is far more rewarding than the over‑commercialised Golf Course Mall. Avoid the monsoon months – water‑logged lanes make the rickshaw rides miserable and the fort’s low‑lying courtyard turns to a mud pit.
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