The city once known for its resplendent culture of mushairas and poets would be reduced to one strewn with bodies of the dead. From a royal capital, its status was relegated to that of a provincial town. The city recovered itself only after 1911 and more so after Independence.
As India became a British colony after the uprising of 1857 was quashed, the colonial government worked on multiple levels to shape perception of their rule.
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