Hazarduari Palace

The Hazarduari Palace, earlier known as the Bara Kothi, is a former palace and now a national monument and public cultural museum, located in the campus of Kila Nizamat in Murshidabad, in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is situated near the bank of the river Ganges. Based on designs by Colonel Duncan McLeod, the palace was built in the nineteenth-century Neoclassical Italianate style with Doric order influences, by Humayun Jah, the Nawab of Bengal between 1824 and 1838.

Together with the Nizamat Imambara, the palace has been a Monument of National Importance since 1977, and administered by the Archaeological Survey of India since 1985.

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Hazarduari Palace ranks #2,208 of 7,738 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #84 of the 172 mapped in India. Founded 1837, it is older than 10% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 562 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 4,836 times in the last 60 days, more than 84% of the atlas. See how India compares in the castle statistics.

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