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 39
... British administration . The Company thus held up the Awadh admin- istration as a negative example of the alternative to British rule . Con- versely , for Indian notables and disgruntled people under direct British administration ...
... British administration . The Company thus held up the Awadh admin- istration as a negative example of the alternative to British rule . Con- versely , for Indian notables and disgruntled people under direct British administration ...
Page 92
... British self - image could probably be traced through most of the British literature on the Rebellion , and glorification of British behaviour during the siege of Lucknow constantly recurs in this literature . The Lucknow Episode in the ...
... British self - image could probably be traced through most of the British literature on the Rebellion , and glorification of British behaviour during the siege of Lucknow constantly recurs in this literature . The Lucknow Episode in the ...
Page 179
... British considered Indian rulers unfit on account of their moral laxness and sensual self - indulgence , so too did they find Urdu poetry distasteful and objectionable for the eroticism and sensuality which they saw in it . Azad's ...
... British considered Indian rulers unfit on account of their moral laxness and sensual self - indulgence , so too did they find Urdu poetry distasteful and objectionable for the eroticism and sensuality which they saw in it . Azad's ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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