Koti Residency
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Koti Residency or British 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
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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.
Hyderabad State
-After Indian independence :When India gained independence in 1947 and Pakistan came into existence in 1947, the British left the local rulers of the princely states the choice of whether to join one of the new dominions or to remain independent...
, James Achilles Kirkpatrick
James Achilles Kirkpatrick
Lieutenant Colonel James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at Hyderabad from 1798 to 1805. He also built the historic Koti Residency in Hyderabad, a landmark and major tourist attraction.-Biography :...
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
White House
The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...
when rebuilding it after being destroyed by the British in 1812. It is the subject of William Dalrymple's White Mughals
White Mughals
White Mughals is a 2002 history book by William Dalrymple.Its Dalrymple's fifth major book.-Summary:The book is a work of social history about the warm relations that existed between the British and some Indians in the 18th and early 19th century, when one in three British men in India was married...
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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.