Malcha Mahal was a community house for the people of malcha in 1600 A.D. For a long period of time people of malcha lived in it and later on it was renamed Wilayat Mahal, after Begum Wilayat Mahal of Awadh, who was given the palace by Government of India in May 1985. However, Begum committed suicide by consuming crushed diamonds here on September 10, 1993 at the age of 62. The building is now mostly in ruins, though still inhabited by her daughter Sakina Mahal, and son Prince Ali Raza.