The former "Begam Samru's house" on Chandni Chauk was made into a bank; click on the image for a large scan. The painting, from c. the 1820's, is in the Aga Khan Museum: *more information*.

Source: http://www.akdn.org/museum/detail.asp?artifactid=1064
(downloaded Apr. 2011)

*Begam Samru's House, from the Metcalfe album, 1840's, by Mazhar Ali Khan* (BL)





"The bank at Delhi," from the 'Illustrated Times', 1857

Source: ebay, Sept. 2009


"The Bank at Delhi," from the Illustrated London News, 1857; *a very large scan of this engraving*

Source: ebay, Dec. 2003



*"The capture of Delhi: The attack on the Bank," from the Illustrated Times, 1857*

Source: ebay, Apr. 2010

*The Bank of Delhi; a photo by Robert and Harriet Tytler, 1858* (BL)


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