1. The earliest recorded account of Hazrat Babajan, who was named at birth Gulrukh states that she "is the daughter of one of the ministers of the Amir of Afghanistan".
10 Facts About Hazrat Babajan
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Hazrat Babajan's education was in keeping with her family's social status of that time.
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About 1904, Hazrat Babajan returned to Bombay and soon afterward proceeded to Ajmer in northern India to pay homage at the tomb of the Sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti who established the Chishti Order of Islam in India.
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In 1930, several months before Hazrat Babajan died, then journalist Paul Brunton visited her.
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On 18 September 1931, one of Hazrat Babajan's fingers was operated on at Sassoon Hospital, but afterwards she did not appear to be recovering.
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Hazrat Babajan died in the Char Bawdi section of Pune on 21 September 1931.
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Over a decade before Dr Ghani's life-sketch of Hazrat Babajan appeared, in 1927 Meher Baba gave a public talk on Hazrat Babajan, which a devotee had recorded in a diary at that time.
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Ghani's later, and extended, version of Hazrat Babajan's life, published in 1939, provides a different account: She left home at the age of eighteen on her wedding day.
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Hazrat Babajan's alleged age when she died continues to be a controversial issue.
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Kalchuri is more dogmatic, and states Hazrat Babajan was born "between 1790 and 1800", and her "physical presence on earth lasted between 130 to 141 years".