19th-century Lucknow

Here's a rendering of the streets of Lucknow from the 19th century (if I'm not mistaken, it's the back view of the image of the imambara below):



Here's an artist's rendering of the 1857 Mutiny in Lucknow:



This is a twentieth-century image, but the structure is an imambara that would have been around during Umrao Jan's time: