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 xvii
... Haider is crowned King of Awadh by the British Governor - General , builds a canal , the tombs of his parents , and Shah Najaf . Nazir - ud - din Haider . English displaces Persian as the language of the Courts in British India . In NWP ...
... Haider is crowned King of Awadh by the British Governor - General , builds a canal , the tombs of his parents , and Shah Najaf . Nazir - ud - din Haider . English displaces Persian as the language of the Courts in British India . In NWP ...
Page 116
... Haider ! ' It came nearer and the measured sound of bare hands striking bare breasts , the monotonous beat of drums and cymbals made my heart beat with a strange excitement . Then the barefooted , bareheaded men came in view following ...
... Haider ! ' It came nearer and the measured sound of bare hands striking bare breasts , the monotonous beat of drums and cymbals made my heart beat with a strange excitement . Then the barefooted , bareheaded men came in view following ...
Page 118
... HAIDER SUBHAS Aminat CANAL LUCKNOW CITY ( 1960 ) SHIA AND SUNNI POPULATION Source : Census of India 1961 ( Monograph No. 3 - Moharram in two cities , Lucknow and Delhi ) . ZOO ་ ན་ To. 118 / Lucknow : Memories of a City Lucknow City ...
... HAIDER SUBHAS Aminat CANAL LUCKNOW CITY ( 1960 ) SHIA AND SUNNI POPULATION Source : Census of India 1961 ( Monograph No. 3 - Moharram in two cities , Lucknow and Delhi ) . ZOO ་ ན་ To. 118 / Lucknow : Memories of a City Lucknow City ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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