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 275
... Hazratganj is the name given to that stretch between the inter- section facing the Allahabad Bank and the General Post Office , and the Halwasiya Market . Hazratganj had been created as a posh shopping centre by the British . On both ...
... Hazratganj is the name given to that stretch between the inter- section facing the Allahabad Bank and the General Post Office , and the Halwasiya Market . Hazratganj had been created as a posh shopping centre by the British . On both ...
Page 276
... Hazratganj . Gradually , however , this class of Indians was pushed out of their pre - eminent presence in Hazratganj by the more ordinary middle class : the junior bureaucracy , civil servants , and teachers and students of Lucknow ...
... Hazratganj . Gradually , however , this class of Indians was pushed out of their pre - eminent presence in Hazratganj by the more ordinary middle class : the junior bureaucracy , civil servants , and teachers and students of Lucknow ...
Page 281
... Hazratganj . There is an interesting case of a friend who later went on to become a well - known film personality . Each evening , dressed in his immaculate suit he came to Hazratganj at sunset and walked up and down several times until ...
... Hazratganj . There is an interesting case of a friend who later went on to become a well - known film personality . Each evening , dressed in his immaculate suit he came to Hazratganj at sunset and walked up and down several times until ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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