Bhool Bhulaiya(Bada Imambara)- A place must to be visited.
To understand anything about Bhool Bhulaiya better, it's important to know about its builders - Nawabs . Quite surprisingly, it was only during my most recent visit to Lucknow that I understood who Nawabs actually were. I always assumed that they were kings who existed at the same time as Mughals, and somehow managed to live peacefully with them so close by at Delhi. The term Nawab comes from the Perisan word Naib which basically means Deputy. Nawab was a title conferred by the Mughals to their deputies across North India. It was a title for males only and the female equivalent was begum (the most famous of them being Begum Nazrat Mahal ). With the mutiny of 1857, the Nawabs and their domains went into decline, though the title didn’t disappear. It became a family title and even now you can find true blue Nawabs in Lucknow, though with little power or money. ...
