The Great Imambara of Asaf al-Daula, Lucknow - 1795
Watercolour of the Great Imambara of Asaf al-Daula, Lucknow, part of the Hyde collection by an anonymous artist working in the Murshidabad style in c. 1790-1800. Inscribed on the back in pencil and ink: 'Emaumbarree at Lucknow.'
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QANOON-E-ISLAM or the Customs of the Moosulmans of India : compromising a full and exact account of their various rites and ceremonies from the moment of birth till the hour of death.
By Jaffur Shurreef and Gerhard Andreas Herklots
Published by Parbury, Allen & Co., London - 1...
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The pictures made by Indian artists for the British in India are called Company paintings. This one depicts part of the Muharram ceremonies, which Muslims carry out in memory of Hasan and Hosein, grandsons of the Prophet Muhammed. Shiah Muslims regard them as his suc...
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Watercolour of the Nawab Asaf al-Daula, the Nawab of Lucknow, by an anonymous artist working in the Murshidabad style, part of the Nuqent Collection, c. 1812. Inscribed on back in English in ink: 'Lukhnou Nawab Asoofooddoala'; in' nagari' charact...
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Watercolour painting of a Muharram festival procession at Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, by James Prinsep (1799-1840). Inscribed on the reverse is: 'Procession of the Tazeeas during the Moohurram at the P'hatman a Moosulman Burial Ground - Benares'. This...
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Muharram festival, the ta'ziya in the Imambara - 1795
Watercolour drawing showing the Muharram festival, by an anonymous artist working in the Patna style, c. 1795 - 1800. Inscribed on the back of the drawing is: 'No.18. The Gift of E.E. Pote Esq. Elizath Collins. This is a Representation of the...
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The Illustrated History of the British Empire in India and the East - From the earliest times to the suppression of the Sepoy mutiny in 1859
By Edward Henry Nolan
Published by James S.Virtue, London - 1858
Volume 1
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Photograph taken by Fritz Kapp in 1904 with a view of the Imambara Hussaini Dalan in Dacca (now Dhaka), overlooking the tank, part of an album of 30 prints from the Curzon Collection. Lord Curzon was Viceroy of India from 1899-1905. In February 1904, he t...
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Hindu Qaum aur Azadari
By Allama Saiyid Sibtul Hasan Fazil Hanswi
In Urdu.
This a book on the celebration of Muharram and commemoration of the the martyrs of Karbala by the non-Muslims in India, specially the Hindus. The work was written and published by the well known and the learned Shi'i scho...
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Photograph of a Muharram procession in Baroda (Vadodara) from the 'Album of portraits and views in Baroda' taken by an unknown photographer in c. 1880. The festival commemorates the popular saint Imam Husain, the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson and the s...
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View of the Central Hall from the courtyard photographed by John Edward Saché (1870s). Nawab Asaf ud-Daula of Awadh (r.1775-97), requested architect Kifayat-ullah to construct the Great Imambara in 1784 , for the purpose of celebrating the Muslim festival of Muharr...
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The Muharram Festival. Asaf al-Daula, Nawab of Oudh, listening at night to the maulvi reading from the scriptures - 1795
Watercolour of the Muharram Festival, part of the Hyde collection, by an unknown artist working in the Murshidabad style, c. 1795. Inscribed on the back in pencil: 'The Nubob ...
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Lord Hastings' party in an elephant procession approaching the Rumi Darwaza in Lucknow - 1814
Watercolour of a procession reaching the Rumi Darwaza from 'Views by Seeta Ram from Cawnpore to Mohumdy Vol. IV' produced for Lord Moira, afterwards the Marquess of Hastings, by Sita Ram between 1814-15...
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The Muharram Festival - Asaf al-Daula, Nawab of Oudh, listening at night to the maulvi reading from the scriptures - 1795
Watercolour of the Muharram Festival, part of the Hyde collection, by an unknown artist working in the Murshidabad style, c. 1795. Inscribed on the back in pencil: 'The Nub...
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An illuminated page from Wajid Ali Shah's divan of Urdu poetry, 1856
"WAJID 'ALI SHAH OF AWADH (R. 1847-56 AD), PEN-NAMED AKHTAR: DIWAN. AWADH, NORTHERN INDIA, DATED 1 MUHARRAM AH 1276/31 JULY 1856 AD. Poetry, manuscript on cream paper, 192 ff. plus 2fl, each with 11ll. of black nasta'liq in t...
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Dervishes Dancing before a Group of Muslim Divines
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper, ca. 1760
India, Deccan region
Edwin Binney 3rd Collection
The small Persian inscription at the top of the painting identifies the scene: “Ecstatic Majlis of the Shaikhs of India”. A majlis is a nocturnal...
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Sultan Bahu (Urdu:سلطان باہو) (ca 1628 - 1691) was a Muslim Sufi and saint, who founded the Sarwari Qadiri sufi order. Darbar Hazrat sultan Bahoo is located near Garh More city.
Sultan Bahu belonged to Awan tribe and was born in Anga, Soon Valley Sakesar...
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