Lala Deen Dayal

Raja Lala Deen Dayal Musaver Jung Bahadur (* 1844 in Sardhama ( Meerut ), † 1905 in Bombay ) was an Indian photographer who, like several of his descendants got the monopoly on photographs at the court of Prince Hyderabad State. In 1887, he became the first Indian " royal purveyor " for Queen Victoria. The data collected by the family over generations paintings are now an important source for the history of the principality.

Journey

Deen Dayal was educated at the Thomason Civil Engineering College of Rurki (United Provinces ), attended at the same time of Husain Sayyed Ali Bilgrami. First he worked for the Public Works Department of the Maharajas of Indoore as a draftsman. In addition, he opened in 1875 in Bombay as a photographer, a company under the name of Deen Dayal & Sons.

He received a government contract an album of Monuments of Central India together. This successful work was the favor of the British Queen. To complete it, he had equipped with a letter of the Viceroy Lord Dufferin to the Nizam, 1884 also visited Hyderabad. The straight Asaf Jah VI came into office. , Who was trained by fellow students Dayals Bilgrami, was impressed by the quality of its images. He was then appointed to the court photographer.

The next year he settled in Secunderabad. There is a separate studio for women was also highly unusual for the time set. The pictures here were taken by an Englishwoman. The studios in Bombay and Indore were operated. Virtually all the photographs of the court, the nobility and the city of time come from him. Many Indian princes took advantage of his paintings as a means of self-expression to the outside. So also Asaf Jah VI. to his "generous " aid during the famine in 1895 to document until 1902.

He accompanied by the turn of the century, Lord Curzon as official photographer on his travels through India and covered the Durbar in Delhi in 1903. Died in 1904, his son Raja Dharam Chand, who had led the studio in Bombay and quickly ran into trouble. In July 1905 his wife died, he also fell ill and followed her a few months later, while he was in Bombay in treatment.

The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, acquired a few years ago the collection of photographic plates and obtained his equipment. The Indian post was on November 11, 2006, a 5 -Rs. Stamp with his likeness with a circulation of 400,000 pieces out.

Descendants

After the death of his son Deen Gyanchand led († 1916) continues the business, who received a life-long monopoly of the court. The third generation of the three sons Gyanchands, Trilukand, Amichand Hukumchand and continued the business. However, it was only became of age as Amichand (1932 ) again successful. Asaf Jah VII began in 1937 to promote the family again. In the 1950s, a studio especially for the many adoptive children of the ex- Nizam was established in Nazari Bagh Palace said. Gulab Chanda Jain sat with his wife continues to run.