Town Hall, Bulandshahr
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| name = Town Hall, Bulandshahr
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| image = Town Hall Bulandshahr. North Verandah. Photograph by Chunni Lál.jpg
| caption = Town Hall Bulandshahr (19th century)
| architectural_style = Indo-Saracenic architecture
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The Town Hall in Bulandshahr, India, was built by Muhammad Baquar Ali Khan at a cost of Rs. 30,000 in the late 19th century. The project was overseen by Frederic Growse, a British civil servant of the Indian Civil Service, who had been appointed collector of the region in 1878. It is situated in Moti Bagh, which was created as a public garden. The main approach was via the Garden Gate.{{cite book |last1=Tillotson |first1=G. H. R. (Giles Henry Rupert) |title=The tradition of Indian architecture : continuity, controversy, and change since 1850 |date=1989 |publisher=New Haven : Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-04636-6 |pages=84–92 |url=https://archive.org/details/traditionofindia0000till/page/86/mode/2up?q=bulandshahr}} It was built in 1883.{{cite book |last1=Nevill |first1=H.R. |title=District Gazetteers Of The United Provinces Of Agra And Oudh Bulandshar (1922)|volume=V |date=1922 |location=Lucknow |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.1369/page/n219/mode/2up?q=rao|page=205}}{{Cite book |last=Growse |first=Frederic Salmon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=inEIAAAAQAAJ&dq=Garden+Gate,+Bulandshahr&pg=PT1 |title=Indian Architecture of To-day as Exemplified in New Buildings in the Bulandshahr District |date=1885 |publisher=North-Western Provinces and Oudh Government Press |location=Allahabad |language=en}}
Entrance (west)
The main approach was via the Garden Gate.{{Cite book |last=Growse |first=Frederic Salmon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zNKVY1WkfCIC&dq=Garden+Gate,+Bulandshahr&pg=PA70 |title=Bulandshahr: Or, Sketches of an Indian District: Social, Historical and Architectural |date=1884 |publisher=Medical Hall Press |pages=70 |language=en}}
File:Garden Gate, Bulandshahr (1880s).png|Garden Gate, Bulandshahr (1880s)
File:Bulandhar Garden Gate night view.tif|Garden Gate, Bulandshahr (2023)
2023
File:Town Hall front view, Bulandhshar (2023).tif|Town Hall North Verandah (2023)
File:Wooden door, Town Hall, Bulandhshar.tif|Wooden door
File:Roof terrace, Town Hall, Bulandhshar.tif|Roof terrace
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{cite thesis |last1=Mallick |first1=Bhaswar |title=Agency of Labor Resistance in Nineteenth Century India: Significance of Bulandshahr and F.S. Growse's Account |date=2018 |publisher=University of Cincinnati |url=https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_olink/r/1501/10?clear=10&p10_accession_num=ucin1543581416769978 |language=en}}
External links
- [https://bulandshahrlegacy.org/2021/07/23/frederic-salmon-growse-the-man-that-built-bulandshahr-in-the-19th-century/ Frederic Salmon Growse: The Man that built Bulandshahr in the 19th Century]
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