Lucknow: Memories of a CityViolette Graff Oxford University Press, 1999 - 299 pages This collection of pieces looks at 150 years of Lucknow's recent history, from its rise to grandeur during the Nawabi days to its political preeminent position today. |
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Page 48
... Allahabad , Allahabad University Press . Shah , Wajid Ali ( 1856 ) , Reply to the Charges against the King of Oude . Calcutta , J.F. Bellamy . " Sharar , Abdul Halim ( 1975 ) , Lucknow : Last Phase of an Oriental Culture trans . and ed ...
... Allahabad , Allahabad University Press . Shah , Wajid Ali ( 1856 ) , Reply to the Charges against the King of Oude . Calcutta , J.F. Bellamy . " Sharar , Abdul Halim ( 1975 ) , Lucknow : Last Phase of an Oriental Culture trans . and ed ...
Page 202
... Allahabad petitioned the Viceroy over the provincial government's failure to site the new Council chamber in Allahabad , they pointed to the unfair advantages gained by Lucknow as a result of the large sums from the provincial revenues ...
... Allahabad petitioned the Viceroy over the provincial government's failure to site the new Council chamber in Allahabad , they pointed to the unfair advantages gained by Lucknow as a result of the large sums from the provincial revenues ...
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... Allahabad , UP Government Press . Butler Papers , British Library , Oriental and India Office Collections , Papers of Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler , Mss . Eur . F116 / 58 , ' First Chapters of an Autobiogra- phy ' . Census ( 1931 ) ...
... Allahabad , UP Government Press . Butler Papers , British Library , Oriental and India Office Collections , Papers of Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler , Mss . Eur . F116 / 58 , ' First Chapters of an Autobiogra- phy ' . Census ( 1931 ) ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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