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].

Qaisarbagh, Lucknow, c.1866
British soldiers looting Qaisar Bagh, Lucknow, after its recapture (steel engraving, late 1850s).

Qaisarbagh Complex of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India (photograph taken between 1865 and 1882).

See also

References
  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.
  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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