Koti Womens College - Telangana Heritage, Art & Culture

The British Resident of Hyderabad state, James Achilles Kirkpatrick built this Residency during 1798 – 1805 CE. It was a famed building even among the officials of East India Company as it was for the first time that any Resident had claimed a land as big as this. However it was the residents of this building that held a greater attraction to the public, as James Achilles Kirkpatrick or Hindoo Stuart fell in love with and later married Khair- un Nissa a young noble woman of Hyderabad.

There were several quarters in the elaborate and expansive British Residency, including a zenana (women’s quarters) where Khair- un Nissa lived with her daughter and mother. The colonial styled building was later converted into OU College for Women in the year 1949 CE.