Lala Deen Dayal ( 1844–1905 )

Deen Dayal took up photography in the early 1870s while he was working as an estimator for the Public Works Department at Indore. In 1883 he accompanied Sir Lepel Griffin as his photographer on an architectural tour of Central India. His photographs were published in Griffin’s “Famous Monuments of Central India” published in London in 1886. In 1884 Deen Dayal became the official photographer of the Nizam if Hyderabad and in1885 he was appointed photographer to the Viceroy Lord Dufferin. One of the first notable Indian photographers. His studios continued well into the 20th century.