Darogha Darogas (also spelled darogha or daroghah) were police officials in the Mughal Empire and the British Raj. In the Mughal Empire, a daroga was superintendent of the "slaves" of a Mughal monarch. Duties The darogas served in the armies of Kachhwa ...

Ubbas Alli (aka Darogha Abbas Ali) was a 19th-century

Indian Indian or Indians may refer to: Associated with India * of or related to India ** Indian people ** Indian diaspora ** Languages of India ** Indian English, a dialect of the English language ** Indian cuisine Associated with indigenous peoples o ...

engineer and photographer. Following his retirement as a municipal engineer in

Lucknow Lucknow () is the List of state and union territory capitals in India, capital and the largest city of the List of state and union territory capitals in India, Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is the administrative headquarters of the epon ...

, Alli began photographing the city and its surroundings in the 1870s. He published fifty of these photographs in an album named ''The Lucknow Album'' in 1874. In 1880, he produced another photographic album, titled ''An Illustrated Historical Album of Rajas and Taaluqdars of Oudh'', comprising images of the landed gentry of

Oudh The Kingdom of Awadh (, , also Oudh State, Kingdom of Oudh, Awadh Subah, or Awadh State) was a Mughal subah, then an independent kingdom, and lastly a British protectorate in the Awadh region of North India until its annexation by the Br ...

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References

Union List of Artist Names, s.v. "Alli, Darogha Ubbas"
Accessed 4 December 2006.

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Information about Darogha Ubbas Alli
* The Lucknow Album full text with image 19th-century births 19th-century Indian photographers 19th-century Indian engineers Year of birth missing Year of death missing Scientists from Lucknow Engineers from Uttar Pradesh Photographers from Uttar Pradesh {{photographer-stub