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 68
... French influence at the imperial court , but the English ambassador was not expecting to find ' in some panes copyes of the French kings ... ' in the private apartments of Jahangir , near the fountain of Hafiz Jamal ( Roe , 1990 : 211 ) ...
... French influence at the imperial court , but the English ambassador was not expecting to find ' in some panes copyes of the French kings ... ' in the private apartments of Jahangir , near the fountain of Hafiz Jamal ( Roe , 1990 : 211 ) ...
Page 69
... French soldiers and sailors with Indian women ( something the Compagnie forbade in French territory except with spe- cial permission — the offenders then went out to seek their fortune in an Indian state ) . Thus a large number of ...
... French soldiers and sailors with Indian women ( something the Compagnie forbade in French territory except with spe- cial permission — the offenders then went out to seek their fortune in an Indian state ) . Thus a large number of ...
Page 82
... French Settlements ' , Reminiscences : The French in India , New Delhi , INTACH , pp . 15-49 , 49 illustrations . Llewellyn - Jones , Rosie ( 1992 ) , A Very Ingenious Man : Claude Martin in Early Colonial India , Delhi , Oxford ...
... French Settlements ' , Reminiscences : The French in India , New Delhi , INTACH , pp . 15-49 , 49 illustrations . Llewellyn - Jones , Rosie ( 1992 ) , A Very Ingenious Man : Claude Martin in Early Colonial India , Delhi , Oxford ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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