An illustrated historical album of the Rajas and Taaluqdars of Oudh
An 1880 photographic album compiled by Darogah Haji Abbas Ali and published by the North-Western Provinces and Oudh Government Press in Allahabad, presenting portrait cartes of the rajas and taluqdars of Oudh. The pictures are uniform oval studio portraits on dark mounts with Urdu captions, showing men in turbans, jackets and ornate costume, useful for studying 19th-century Indian formal portraiture and photographic presentation.
