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The Mughal court moved to Mehrauli for seven days, processing from the Red Fort via Purana Qila, Humayun's Tomb, the Nizamuddin dargah and the Safdarjung madrasa. The tradition ran to 1857 with the kings using Zafar Mahal and Jahaz Mahal. The British stopped it in 1942 during Quit India; Nehru restarted it in 1962. The two pankhas are now offered by the President of India.
Mumtaz Mahal Begum vowed the offerings if her son returned safely. ACCOUNTS VARY: some say Mirza Jahangir, exiled to Allahabad in 1812 after firing at the British Resident from the Red Fort's Naqqar Khana; Grokipedia gives Mirza Salim's illness. Bahadur Shah Zafar's pankha bore Medina on one side and Yogmaya Mata on the other.
Delhi's own festival: a procession of flower sellers, organised by the Anjuman Sair-e-Gul Faroshan guild, offering a floral pankha at the Yogmaya Temple in Mehrauli and a floral chadar at the dargah of Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki. Processions, qawwali, classical music and kabaddi.