Serai Lashkari Khan
Serai Lashkari Khan located near Gurdwara Manji Sahib, Kotan in Ludhiana District, Punjab, India is a historical inn, or caravanserai, built by Mughal military general Lashkari Khan in 1667 CE, during the reign of Emperor Aurangzeb.
History
A specimen of major structural types of Islamic architecture, this is one of many caravanserais meant to be halting places along the old Mughal highway connecting Agra, Delhi and Lahore. These caravanserais played an important role in economic, cultural and political life but gradually fell in disuse with shifting routes and advent of railroads in the nineteenth century. Many of these disappeared altogether due to modernization and urban expansion.The historic inn, though declared as a protected monument, has largely been neglected and has been in a dilapidated condition.