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 51
... Gomti river , and too far to provide imme- diate aid if trouble broke out in the city . Again , this was a place where Englishmen and women could feel almost at home with a little church , a ballroom , lending library , ice - club ...
... Gomti river , and too far to provide imme- diate aid if trouble broke out in the city . Again , this was a place where Englishmen and women could feel almost at home with a little church , a ballroom , lending library , ice - club ...
Page 55
... Gomti's waters to cool the house . A series of arches , built on piers in the river , supported the great mirrored room at first floor level , giving a watery , Venetian feeling , particularly when the Gomti rose during the monsoon ...
... Gomti's waters to cool the house . A series of arches , built on piers in the river , supported the great mirrored room at first floor level , giving a watery , Venetian feeling , particularly when the Gomti rose during the monsoon ...
Page 94
... Gomti Tara Kothi Hazrat Gunj Ghaziuddin Hyder Canal Talkatora Bridge Char Bagh Karbala River Gomti Area of demolition N Victoria Street Source : FIGURE 1 LUCKNOW IN 1856. 94 / Lucknow : Memories of a City Endpaper: Gentil's map of Awadh ...
... Gomti Tara Kothi Hazrat Gunj Ghaziuddin Hyder Canal Talkatora Bridge Char Bagh Karbala River Gomti Area of demolition N Victoria Street Source : FIGURE 1 LUCKNOW IN 1856. 94 / Lucknow : Memories of a City Endpaper: Gentil's map of Awadh ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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