Lala Deen Dayal
Thomason College of Civil Engineering | |
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Known for | Photography |
He received the
Early life and education
Deen Dayal was born in
Career
In 1866, Deen Dayal entered government service as head estimator and draughtsman in the Department of Works Secretariat Office in Indore.[5] Meanwhile, he took up photography. His first patron in Indore was Maharaja Tukoji Rao II of Indore state, who in turn introduced him to Sir Henry Daly, agent to the Governor General for Central India (1871–1881) and the founder of Daly College, who encouraged his work, along with the Maharaja himself who encouraged him to set up his studio in Indore. Soon he was getting commissions from Maharajas and the British Raj.[4] The following year he was commissioned to photograph the Governor-General's tour of Central India.[6] In 1868, Deen Dayal founded his studio – Lala Deen Dayal & Sons – and was subsequently commissioned to photograph temples and palaces of India.[6] He established studios in Indore (Mid 1870s), Secunderabad (1886) and Bombay (1896).[7]
In 1875–76, Deen Dayal photographed the Royal Tour of the
The next year he retired from government service and concentrated on his career as a professional photographer. Deen Dayal became the court photographer to the sixth
Raja Deen Dayal was appointed photographer to Queen Victoria in 1897.[10]
In 1905–1906, Raja Deen Dayal accompanied the Royal Tour of the
Legacy
The Lala Deen Dayal studios' collection of 2,857 glass plate negatives was bought by the
In 2006, a curated collection of Raja Deen Dayal's photographs was exhibited at the Salar Jung Museum during the Times Hyderabad Festival;[13] subsequently in November, the Ministry of Communications, Department of Posts released a commemorative stamp honouring him; the ceremony was held at Jubilee Hall, Hyderabad.[3]
Gallery
Photographs taken by Deen Dayal in the 1880s, sourced from the British Library, George Curzon's Collection: Views of HH the Nizam's Dominions, Hyderabad, Deccan, 1892.
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Hyderabad
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Bashir Bagh Palace, Hyderabad
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The interior of the Basir-bagh Palace
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Drawing Room of Chowmahalla Palace, Hyderabad
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A distant view of the Falaknuma Palace from an opposite hillside, taken by in the 1880s
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Rashtrapati Nilayam, Hyderabad, then Residency House circa 1892
Notes
- The Library of Congress(Washington, DC, USA) gives the date of his death as 5 July 1905, which is probably an error, and gives the preferred form of his name as "Deen Dayal, Raja". The Union List of Artist Names gives his year of death as 1910 and the preferred form of his name as "Dayal, Lala Deen".
- ^ "Portrait of a photographer". The Tribune. 8 February 2004.
- ^ a b "Lala Deen Dayal stamp released: Many photographers fail to match Deen Dayal's ability even today, says Union Minister". The Hindu. 12 November 2006. Archived from the original on 27 October 2007.
- ^ a b "Biography". Archived from the original on 22 January 2011. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
- ^ a b Thomas 1981, p. 24.
- ^ a b Johnson 1990.
- ^ "HOME :: Raja Lala Deen Dayal". www.laladeendayal.in. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
- ^ Thomas 1981, p. 39.
- ^ a b "Vignettes of a splendorous era". The Hindu. 28 November 2010. Archived from the original on 5 December 2010.
- ^ a b c d Thomas 1981, p. 40.
- ^ "The Raja of images". Hindustan Times. 3 December 2010. Archived from the original on 4 February 2011.
- ^ "Framing history". Indian Express. 1 December 2010.
- ^ "Deen Dayal's 'eyes' capture bygone era". The Times of India. 26 April 2006.
References
- "Deen Dayal, Raja, LC Control Number n 79141503". Anglo-American Name Authority File. Retrieved 18 August 2006.
- Canadian Centre for Architecture; Collections Online, s.v. “Dayal, Lala Deen”, cited 18 August 2006.
- Johnson, William S. (1990). Nineteenth-Century Photography: An Annotated Bibliography, 1839–1879. Boston: G.K. Hall.
- Thomas, G. (1981). History of photography, India, 1840–1980. Andhra Pradesh State Akademi of Photography. pp. 24, 31, 39, 40.
- Union List of Artist Names, s.v. "Dayal, Lala Deen", cited 18 August 2006.
Further reading
- Princely India: Photographs by Raja Deen Dayal, 1884–1910, by Deen Dayal (Author), Clark Worswick. Knopf, 1980. ISBN 0-394-50772-X.
- Raja Deen Dayal : Prince of Photographers, by Narendra Luther, Sureshchand Deendayal. Hyderabadi, 2003. ISBN 81-901752-0-3.
- Lala Deen Dayal: the eminent Indian photographer, 1844–1910, Deen Dayal (Raja), London Borough of Camden. Libraries & Arts Dept., 2002.
- Raja Deen Dayal Collection at Alkazi Foundation
External links
- Media related to Lala Deen Dayal at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- Lala Deen Dayal, resource website
- Documentary