Renewed gate of the Rang Mahal complex. | Photo Credit: Serish Nanisetti
It is one of the relics of the multi -year love story, as well as the 168 -year war, and now has been restored after decades of neglect. Resurrection, which contributes to the aura of the stormy love of Khair-Un-Nissy and James Kirkpatrick at the turn of the 19th century in the princely Hyderabad.
Hidden behind the University of Chakali ILAMMA or what used to be a stay of the stay is a small gate that led to the Khair-Un-Nissa Palace, named Rang Mahal.
While the palace is gone, charming tapering paired columns, cut stucco work, outburst of overhanging and jharokases Pol (gates) returns to another era where it was part of the garden.
“We think it is a column of palace. The other parts of the palace have disappeared. There is a gate that opens towards the Musi River, and there is a garden known as Begum’s Garden,” says Nature Architect Anushree Kabra and points to a pile of bricks. “The column was covered to ensure that there was no damage,” says Mrs. Kabra, who helped to restore Mahal Gateway gang after all year’s efforts.
“When I first saw the gate, there was a structural failure, cracks, vegetation and a large tree grew in the gate. We removed vegetation. Our work was delayed because it took time to source teak wood that was 10.5 feet for raftery.
Visitors to the stay of the stay are informed about how the safety of the complex after the first war of Indian independence in 1857 in 1857 reinforced sloto for weapons, walls, walls, iron gates and hidden paths. However, what is not told is the fact that the Rang Mahal complex was demolished on the ground by the British political inhabitants of Hyderabad Sir George Udney Yule.
“Seventy years later, almost the entire structure was destroyed and equalized by a shocked Victorian inhabitant who believed it slapped from” native immorality, “writes William Dalrymple in White Mughals.
It happened almost ten years after the 1857 uprising during the George Udney Yule, who was a resident in 1863 and 67.
The Deccan Heritage Foundation Foundation, which has worked with officials of the University of Chakali Ilamma, has an adaptive re -use of a renewed building and garden. “We want to restore the Mahal gate and its surrounding gardens as a living symbol of indigenous architectural heritage, to support the awareness of inheritance, giving preservation skills, attracting visitors to increase its cultural importance and support the restoration and guards for the restoration and sites for restoration and sites. It also builds for the renewal and pages for the renewal and lost.
Khair Un Nisa last breathed in Rang Mahal.
Published – April 17, 2025 20:16
