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The Cannon at Chowmahalla Palace

By: Pranav Shah

Dec 30 2008

Category: Daily Photo, Pranav

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3 Comments »

Cannons are usually at forts, I wonder how one cannon without any ramparts to back it up can protect the palace! Its probably a merely decorative cannon.

3 Responses to “The Cannon at Chowmahalla Palace”

  1. 30 Dec 2008 at 9:16 am Bharath

    I suppose the people who lived there needed to emphasize they had big ones :-)

  2. 30 Dec 2008 at 9:32 am Akshay

    Cannons or topé were the ultimate sign of military might; the diwan of the first Nizam, Arastu Jah, was famously woo-ed by the sight of all those massive 21″ cannons in the fort at Calcutta. The French presence in Hyderabad was all about cannons; there’s a reason it was called Gunfoundry. :-)

    I’m rather certain there’s some re-modelling going on here; you can’t quite have a cannon without a brick-wall. Definitely not on a grassy knoll, pun intended. :-)

  3. 30 Dec 2008 at 11:09 am Paul

    composition could have been better

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