Arched gateway at the south end of the main façade of the Mahal Sarai Palace, Rohtasgarh. Photographer: Peppé, Thomas Fraser
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of gateway seen at left of print 2876. ' At the southern end of the principal front is a large arched gateway with two elephants cut in the stone on either side, and consequently called the Hathiya Pul. Within this gate there are several vaults and re...
Audience hall of the Mahal Sarai, Rohtasgarh. Photographer: Peppé, Thomas Fraser
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Genre: Architectural Photography 'Passing through this gateway the passage leads into a sort of courtyard, and immediately opposite the entrance is one of the finest buildings in the whole place. It was the public reception room, and was called the Barahdoware [Baradari] or twelve gates, and it...
View of the east façade of the audience of the Mahal Sarai, Rohtasgarh. Photographer: Peppé, Thomas Fraser
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Genre: Architectural Photography View showing a portion of the east face of the audience hall (partly out of the photograph) and other palace buildings: 'The eastern face of the Barahdoware is ornamented with a double row of arched doors giving light to the spacious halls behind, and also givin...
View across the northern part of the Mahal Sarai, Rohtasgarh. Photographer: Peppé, Thomas Fraser
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Genre: Architectural Photography 'The northern part of the palace seems to have been the quarter set aside for the ladies' apartments, and the chief building was surrounded on three sides by a flower garden. It was the residence of the chief's married wife [?], and was called the Aynuh Mahul. P...
View across the northern part of the Mahal Sarai, Rohtasgarh. Photographer: Peppé, Thomas Fraser
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Genre: Architectural Photography '...A view of the same building [as print 2880] from the opposite side looking south-east. This building is not overlooked by any part of the palace, except from the roof of the Tukht Padshai or principal state room, and evidently intended as the chief's audienc...
View of the Tukht Padshahi of the Mahal Sarai, Rohtasgarh. Photographer: Peppé, Thomas Fraser
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Genre: Architectural Photography '...A view of the Tukht Padshahi with the cupolas on the summit and part of the country beyond the walls, which is very pretty and park like' (descriptive notes by T.F. Peppé accompanying photographs, Bengal pub. proc., no. 75 of July 1871, IOR/P/156 p.73). Ind...
Close view of inscription in Hindia and Persian on the inner side of the principal entrance to the Mahal Sarai Palace. Photographer: Peppé, Thomas Fraser
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Genre: Architectural Photography India Museum no. 1101.
Tomb to the north-west of the Mahal Sarai Palace, Rohtasgarh. Photographer: Peppé, Thomas Fraser
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towardsthe largely overgrown tomb. 'To the north-west of the palace, where Shere Shah had contemplated the erection of a citadel, there are the remains of several very large buildings. The principal one is the tomb of the superintendent of the works...