Qaisar Bagh

Qaisarbagh (Hindi: क़ैसरबाग़, Urdu: قيصر باغ, pronounced [qɛːsərˈbaːɣ], Emperor's Garden), also spelled Qaiserbagh, Kaisarbagh or Kaiserbagh, is a complex in the city of Lucknow, located in the Awadh region of India. It was built by Wajid Ali Shah (1847-1856), the last Nawab of Awadh.^[1]^[2] The campaigning Irish journalist William Howard Russell wrote a classic account of the looting of the Qaisar Bagh in 1858 by drunken British troops in the course of the Great Uprising/Indian Mutiny^[3].

References

^ "General View of the Palace in Kaiser Bagh, Lucknow (by H.A. Mirza & Sons)". Images of Asia. 1910. Archived from the original on 5 January 2010. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
^ "The Walled Palaces of Kaiserbagh (by Anil Mehrotra Neeta Das)". Zeno Marketing Communications. Inc. Archived from the original on 29 January 2009. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
^ Ferdinand Mount, “Atrocity upon atrocity”,Times Literary Supplement, 23 February 2018, page 14.

External links

Columbia University: Pictures of Qaisarbagh

[Images_of_Asia-1] "General View of the Palace in Kaiser Bagh, Lucknow (by H.A. Mirza & Sons)". Images of Asia. 1910. Archived from the original on 5 January 2010. Retrieved 14 August 2009.

[Zeno_Marketing_Communications._Inc.-2] "The Walled Palaces of Kaiserbagh (by Anil Mehrotra Neeta Das)". Zeno Marketing Communications. Inc. Archived from the original on 29 January 2009. Retrieved 14 August 2009.

[3] Ferdinand Mount, “Atrocity upon atrocity”,Times Literary Supplement, 23 February 2018, page 14.

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