Sikandar Bagh

Sikandar Bagh is a walled garden and villa complex built as a summer residence by the last Nawab of Oudh, Wajid Ali Shah, and named for Sikandar Mahal Begum. The enclosure is described in the sources as a roughly 150-yard square fortified garden with gateways, corner bastions and loopholes. During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, Sikandar Bagh was a focal point in the Siege of Lucknow: British forces stormed the walled garden, and the site is recorded in the supplied sources as the location where a large number of sepoy mutineers were killed within its walls. In the present day the grounds are the location of the National Botanical Research Institute of India. The supplied research notes and sources focus on the site's architectural and military-historical significance and do not include accounts of supernatural phenomena, named spirits, folkloric curses, or witness testimony of hauntings. Public access is not explicitly detailed in the provided materials; the site's institutional use as NBRI and its description as a park in secondary data imply it is maintained in a non-ruin, non-demolished state.