Qaisar Bagh

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title: "Qaisar Bagh" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["buildings-and-structures-in-lucknow", "gardens-in-lucknow", "indian-rebellion-of-1857", "persian-gardens-in-india", "paradise-gardens-in-india"] description: "Palace complex in Lucknow, India" topic_path: "geography/india" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qaisar_Bagh" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Palace complex in Lucknow, India ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/La_Martinière_02.jpg" caption="Qaisarbagh Complex of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India (photograph taken between 1865 and 1882)."] ::

Qaisarbagh (Hindi: क़ैसरबाग़, Urdu: , , Emperor's Garden), also spelled Qaiserbagh, Kaisarbagh or Kaiserbagh, is a palace 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.

During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, it was used as a stronghold of Begum Hazrat Mahal the Begum of Awadh, who played a leading role in the uprising.

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.

Though a major part of the palace was destroyed by British soldiers and lies in ruins, currently it is a major tourist spot of Lucknow.

::data[format=table] | [[File:Qaisar Bagh, Lucknow, c.1866.jpg|thumb|Qaisarbagh, Lucknow, c.1866]] | [[Image:British soldiers looting Qaisar Bagh Lucknow.jpg|thumb|William Howard Russell, corespondent for The Times (London), witnesses British soldiers looting Qaisar Bagh, Lucknow, after its recapture in 1858]] | |---|---| ::

References

References

1. (1910). "General View of the Palace in Kaiser Bagh, Lucknow (by H.A. Mirza & Sons)". Images of Asia.
2. "The Walled Palaces of Kaiserbagh (by Anil Mehrotra Neeta Das)". Zeno Marketing Communications. Inc..
3. (26 November 2016). "Kaiserbagh Palace Complex". Times of India.
4. [[Ferdinand Mount]], "Atrocity upon atrocity",''[[Times Literary Supplement]]'', 23 February 2018, page 14.
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