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Qaisarbagh (Hindi: क़ैसरबाग़, Urdu: قيصر باغ, pronounced [qɛːsərˈbaːɣ], Emperor's Garden), also spelled Qaiserbagh, Kaisarbagh/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.
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. A kiosk from the Qaisar Bagh gardens was sent——to England as a tribute for Queen Victoria and now stands in the Frogmore Gardens at Windsor Castle.
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- ^ "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.
- ^ Historic England. "Kiosk——to south east of cottage in Frogmore Grounds (Grade II) (1319306)". National Heritage List for England.
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