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Nawab
A Nawab or Nawaab is an honorific title given to Muslim rulers of princely states in South Asia. It is the Muslim equivalent of the term "maharaja" that was granted to Hindu rulers....
Ghazi Uddin Haider
Ghazi-ud-Din Haider
Ghazi-ud-Din Haider was the last nawab wazir of Oudh from 11 July 1814 to 19 October 1818 and first King of Oudh from 19 October 1818 to 19 October 1827.-Life:...
and completed after his death by his successor, Nawab Nasir Uddin Haider
Nasiruddin Haider
Nasir-ud-din Haidar was the second King of Oudh from 19 October 1827 to 7 July 1837.-Life:He was the son of Ghaziuddin Haider....
. The imposing building has large underground rooms and a dome surmounted by a gilt umbrella. From the time of the Indian Rebellion of 1857
Indian Rebellion of 1857
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the British East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to...
it was often photographed by such figures as Felice Beato
Felice Beato
Felice Beato , also known as Felix Beato, was an Italian–British photographer. He was one of the first people to take photographs in East Asia and one of the first war photographers. He is noted for his genre works, portraits, and views and panoramas of the architecture and landscapes of Asia and...
, Samuel Bourne
Samuel Bourne
Samuel Bourne was a British photographer known for his prolific seven years' work in India, from 1863 to 1870...
, Darogha Ubbas Alli
Darogha Ubbas Alli
Darogha Ubbas Alli was a 19th century Indian engineer and photographer. In the 1870s, following his retirement as a municipal engineer in Lucknow, Alli began photographing the city and its surroundings. He published fifty of these photographs in an album called The Lucknow Album in 1874...
, and Thomas Rust. The palace now houses the Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI).