Koti Residency
| Koti Residency | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Royal mansion |
| Location | Hyderabad, India |
| Completed | Circa 1798 |
Koti Residency or British Residency or "Hyderabad Residency" is an opulent mansion built by the British Resident of Hyderabad state, James Achilles Kirkpatrick during 1798–1805. It is a tourist attraction and located in Koti, Hyderabad.
The design is a palladian villa which is the same design followed by the builders of the United States White House when rebuilding it after being destroyed by the British in 1812. It is the subject of William Dalrymple's White Mughals. The house was designed by Lieutenant Samuel Russell of the Madras Engineers and construction began in 1803.
History
Kirkpatrick built this mansion for his Indian wife Khair un Nissa who bore him two surviving children who were sent to England by the age of 5 and never saw them again due to their early deaths of their parents.
Koti meaning a mansion, is a huge mansion built in Palladian Georgian style. In 1949 it was converted into the women's college, Osmania University College for Women.
The building was at once the embassy of the East India Company representative at large to The Nizam as well as a Fort. Within its compound one can find a miniature of the building in a scaled down form so as to fulfill the wishes of his wife to see the entire scale of the mansion.
After a court directive to the Archeological Survey of India, it is now a protected monument.
British Residents at Hyderabad included:
- Major James Achilles Kirkpatrick (1797–1805)
- Captain Thomas Sydenham (1806–1810)
- Sir Henry Russell (1811–1820)
- Lord Charles Metcalfe (1820–1825)
- Colonel Cuthbert Davidson (1857–1862)
- Sir Richard Temple (1867–1868)
- John Graham Cordery (1883–1888)
- Sir Trevor Chichele Plowden (1891–1900)
- Michael O'Dwyer (1908–1909)
- Colonel Alexander Pinhey (1911–1916)
- Sir Stuart Fraser (1916–1919)
- Sir Lennox Russell (1919–1925)
- Sir Duncan Mackenzie (1935–1938)
- Sir Arthur Lothian (1942–1946)
References
http://www.amazon.com/White-Mughals-Betrayal-Eighteenth-Century-India/dp/014200412X