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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... North India : Awadh and the Punjab 1707-48 , Delhi , Oxford University Press . Barnett , Richard B. ( 1980 ) , North India Between Empires : Awadh , the Mughals and the British , Berkeley , University of California . Blomfield , David ...
... North India : Awadh and the Punjab 1707-48 , Delhi , Oxford University Press . Barnett , Richard B. ( 1980 ) , North India Between Empires : Awadh , the Mughals and the British , Berkeley , University of California . Blomfield , David ...
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... north India , Lucknow served it as one of its several administrative seats in the Gangetic plain . The city stood as the established centre of its local region after the coming of the Mughals as well ( 1526 ) . The Mughals incorporated ...
... north India , Lucknow served it as one of its several administrative seats in the Gangetic plain . The city stood as the established centre of its local region after the coming of the Mughals as well ( 1526 ) . The Mughals incorporated ...
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... North India's very best musicians and dancers graced their halls to enter- tain the city's nobility . Time has taken its toll on Lucknow in many ways , and now little is left of the old life . Yet the cultural legacy of Lucknow's ...
... North India's very best musicians and dancers graced their halls to enter- tain the city's nobility . Time has taken its toll on Lucknow in many ways , and now little is left of the old life . Yet the cultural legacy of Lucknow's ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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