Darogha Ubbas Alli

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Darogha Ubbas Alli
Born
India
CitizenshipIndian
OccupationEngineer, Photographer
Years active1870s
Known forEngineering, Photographing


Darogha Ubbas Alli (aka Darogha Abbas Ali) was a 19th-century Indian engineer and photographer. Following his retirement as a municipal engineer in Lucknow, 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. [1]

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