viceroy

Soon he got permission to light up one of the city's most famous addresses - Raj Bhavan, the governor's mansion, once the residence of the British viceroy.

Relief efforts started to be put into place by the end of 1943 with the arrival of a new viceroy, Field Marshall Lord Wavell.

"Governor Generals, viceroys and people in high society would dine there," Mr Neogi explains.

Dufferin was the British viceroy, and Dayal, who had worked as a surveyor for the colonial government before leaving to pursue his passion as a freelancer, was his official photographer.

It was the homestretch for colonial rule: India would be independent, and the viceroys no more, within the year.