Lucknow - Secundra Bagh Gate. And Wholesale Slaughter.

            The Postcard

A postally unused postcard bearing no publisher's name. The card, which has a divided back, was printed in Saxony. It bears an early image of the entrance gate to what is more commonly called Sikandar Bagh.

Sikandar Bagh

Sikandar Bagh is a villa and garden enclosed by a fortified wall with loopholes, a gateway (in the photograph), and corner bastions approximately 150 yards square (circa 4.6 acres). 

It is in the city of Lucknow, Oudh, Uttar Pradesh, India.

It was built by the last Nawab of Oudh, Wajid Ali Shah (1822-1887) as a summer residence. The name of the villa means 'Garden of Sikandar'.

It was stormed in 1857 by the British during the Indian Mutiny - they slaughtered all 2,200 sepoy mutineers who had made it a stronghold during their Siege of Lucknow.  The rebels died hard by the hands of men still maddened by fearful memories of Cawnpore. (To find out what these memories were, please search for the tag 88CMG66)

There is a statue in the garden of Uda Devi, a Parsi lady, who fought side by side with the besieged mutineers. Wearing male battle dress, she sat atop a tree in the garden, gun in hand, and fired at the British attackers until her ammunition was exhausted, upon which she dropped dead to the ground, her body riddled with bullets.

The site now houses the National Botanical Research Institute of India.  The Institute displays articles such as cannonballs, swords and shields, parts of muskets and rifles which have been dug up in the garden. Scars from cannonballs on the old walls of the garden still bear witness to the event.

Lucknow

Lucknow is the capital and second largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is the eleventh most populous city in India.

In 1856, the British East India Company abolished local rule and took complete control of the city along with the rest of Awadh and, in 1857, transferred it to the British Raj.  Along with the rest of India, Lucknow became independent from Britain on the 15th. August 1947.

Taken on: July 5, 2022

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