View of the south gate to Lalbagh Fort
Lalbagh Fort, south entrance, south view
Lalbagh Fort, south entrance, north view
Photograph taken in the 1870s by an unknown photographer of the Lal Bagh Fort in Dhaka, now the capital of Bangladesh. Prince Muhammad Azam, the son of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, began building the Fort in about 1677 but it was never completed. One of the principal attractions in the Old City of Dhaka, it has three storeys and the complex contains many buildings including the tomb of Pari Bibi or 'Fairy Lady', the wife of a Mughal governor of Bengal, and a huge mosque. The area has a hot, damp tropical climate and is flooded periodically by waters from the Bay of Bengal as well as from the yearly moonsoon. By the 19th century many of the once-elegant Mughal buildings in the city were left in ruins by the action of both the climate and the resultant wildly luxuriant overgrowth of trees and vegetation which lent them a picturesque look and made them popular subjects for artists and photographers.
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Photograph of a river scene taken in Dhaka district in the 1870s by an unknown photographer. This view illustrates a scene with a temple on the banks of the Buriganga River at an unidentified location in the Dhaka region in Bangladesh.
View of the south gate to Lalbagh Fort
Lalbagh Fort, south entrance, south view
Lalbagh Fort, south entrance, north view
Photograph of St Thomas's Church at Dhaka in Bangladesh taken in the 1870s by an unknown photographer. Formerly Dhaka was a Mughal capital and later the headquarters of the Division and District of the same name. Dhaka was famous for centuries for its production by skilled local craftsmen of fine cotton muslins which were tested by passing the finished piece of cloth through a lady's ring. The city is situated on the banks of the Buriganga River and is crossed by a branch of the Dolai Creek. It is now the capital city of Bangladesh.
