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Lucknow

City, 1856–1947

لکھنؤلکھنوलखनऊवालिद अली शाह

Today Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. Same place, same name.

Key facts

Historical name
Lucknow
Type
City
Coordinates
26.8470° N, 80.9470° E(seed dataset)
Governance
Directly administered
Record confidence
High confidence
Identifiers
Q47916

Directly administered by the Governor-General of India, and therefore part of British India in the statutory sense of the Interpretation Act 1889, s.18.

Location

Pin placed at the coordinates recorded for this place. Colonial-era boundaries are not drawn.

Description

Capital of the Nawabs of Oudh, annexed in 1856, and thereafter chief city of Oudh within the United Provinces.

Historical notes

Site of the five-month Siege of the Residency in 1857, one of the defining episodes of the uprising. Oudh was joined with the North-Western Provinces in 1877 and renamed the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh in 1902.

Administrative history

Administrative parenthood changed over time. Each row states the years it is recorded for, and the source it comes from.

Administrative units this place is recorded under, by year
YearsRelationUnitConfidence
from 1901Part ofUnited Provinces of Agra and OudhProvince · Directly administeredSnapshot from the 1901 census and the Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908-31). End of the relationship not established; recorded as open rather than inferred.High confidencesource
from 1901Part ofLucknowDistrict · Directly administeredSnapshot from the 1901 census and the Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908-31). End of the relationship not established; recorded as open rather than inferred.High confidencesource

Recorded names

Every documented spelling and transliteration held for this place. The historical name is canonical; modern names redirect to it.

Name variants recorded for this place
NameScriptTypeYears
LucknowLatinHistorical English
City of NawabsLatinAlternative spelling
Constantinople of the EastLatinAlternative spelling
Golden City of IndiaLatinAlternative spelling
LakhnauLatinAlternative spelling
Lucknow CityLatinAlternative spelling
LucnowLatinAlternative spelling
Shiraz-i-HindLatinAlternative spelling
لکھنؤArabicIndigenous
لکھنوArabicIndigenous
लखनऊDevanagariIndigenous
वालिद अली शाहDevanagariIndigenous

Records and references

Imperial Gazetteer of India
Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908-31), Vol. 16 (16)

Sources

  1. Encyclopedia· generalCC BY-SA

    Wikipedia: Lucknow, Wikimedia Foundation

    Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0

    Retrieved 2026-08-29

  2. Database· identityCC0

    Wikidata (Q47916), Wikimedia Foundation

    Wikidata, CC0 1.0

    Retrieved 2026-08-29

  3. Gazetteer· administrativeLicence unverified

    Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908–31), DSAL entry: Lucknow City, University of Chicago / Digital South Asia Library

    Digital South Asia Library, University of Chicago — the 1908–31 text is public domain, but DSAL's digital presentation states no licence; link-out only

    Retrieved 2026-08-29

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