Hazarduari Complex

India / Bangla / Murshidabad / Murshidabad
 museum, place with historical importance
The Hazarduari Palace, or the palace with a thousand doors is the chief tourist attraction of Murshidabad. This three-storey palace was built in 1837 by Duncan McLeod for the Nawab Najim Humaun Jah, descendent of Mir Zafar. It has thousand doors (among which only 900 are real) and 114 rooms and 8 galleries, built in European architectural style. The total area of Hazarduari Palace is 41 acres. It is now a museum and has an exquisite collection of armoury, splendid paintings, exhaustive portraits of the Nawabs, various works of art including beautiful works of ivory (Murshidabad school) of China (European) and many other valuables. The Armoury has 2700 arms in its collections of which only few are displayed. Swords used by Shiraj-ud-Daulla and his grandfather, Nawab Alivardi Khan, can be seen here. The other attractions in this floor are Vintage Cars and Fittan Cars used by the Nawabs and their families.Hazarduari Museum..The highlights of this palace are its durbar hall, ball room and banquet hall. The durbar hall is crowned by a 63-feet high glass-panelled dome from which hangs a magnificent candelabram of 101 branches, said to be the second-largest in the world after the one at Buckingham Palace.Ivory carving received royal patronage from the Nawabs of Bengal. The carvers, called 'Bhaskars', who guarded the secret of their craft zealously, were renowned for their precision using up to 80 different fine tools and avoiding joints.


The library containing rare collections is not accessible to the public unless special permission is obtained. The building, rectangular on plan ( 424 feet Long and 200 feet broad and 80 feet high). The Palace was used for holding the "Durbar" or meetings and other official work of the Nawabs and also as the residence of the high ranking British Officials.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murshidabad_district#The_Hazarduari_Palace
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Coordinates:   24°11'13"N   88°16'8"E

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  • I have grown up in this historical city and studied in Nawab Bahadur`s Institution. I have left this Soil near about 28 years back and settled in Delhi but no any other memory has been fulfill my mind other than HAZARDUARI.
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