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[[Image:La Martinière 02.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Qaisarbagh Complex of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India (photograph taken between 1865 and 1882).]]<br />
'''Qaisarbagh''' ([[Hindi]]: क़ैसरबाग़, [[Urdu]]: {{Nastaliq|قيصر باغ}}, {{IPA-hns|qɛːsərˈbaːɣ|pron}}, ''Emperor's Garden''), also spelled '''Qaiserbagh''', '''Kaisarbagh''' or '''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]].<ref name="Images of Asia">{{cite web|url = http://www.imagesofasia.com/html/india/kaiser-bagh.html|title = General View of the Palace in Kaiser Bagh, Lucknow (by H.A. Mirza & Sons)|publisher = Images of Asia|year = 1910|access-date = 2009-08-14|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100105064239/http://imagesofasia.com/html/india/kaiser-bagh.html|archive-date = 5 January 2010|url-status = dead}}</ref><ref name="Zeno Marketing Communications. Inc.">{{cite web|url = http://travelersindia.com/archive/v6n2/v6n2-walled_palaces.html|title = The Walled Palaces of Kaiserbagh (by Anil Mehrotra Neeta Das)|publisher = Zeno Marketing Communications. Inc.|access-date = 2009-08-14|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090129213636/http://travelersindia.com/archive/v6n2/v6n2-walled_palaces.html|archive-date = 29 January 2009|df = dmy-all}}</ref> 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 [[Indian Rebellion of 1857|Great Uprising/Indian Mutiny]].<ref>[[Ferdinand Mount]], “Atrocity upon atrocity”,''[[Times Literary Supplement]]'', 23 February 2018, page 14.</ref> A [[Indian Kiosk, Frogmore|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]].<ref name="auto">{{NHLE|num=1319306|desc=Kiosk to south east of cottage in Frogmore Grounds|grade=II}}</ref><br />
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|[[File:Qaisar Bagh, Lucknow, c.1866.jpg|thumb|Qaisarbagh, Lucknow, c.1866]]<br />
|[[Image:British soldiers looting Qaisar Bagh Lucknow.jpg|thumb|''William Howard Russell'' the London ''Times'' correspondent witnesses British soldiers looting Qaisar Bagh, Lucknow, after its recapture in 1858]]<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Architecture of Lucknow]]<br />
*[[Meena Baazar]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
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*[http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/avadh_late/qaisarbagh/qaisarbagh.html Columbia University: Pictures of Qaisarbagh]<br />
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