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
... Saadat Ali Khan builds Dilkusha Palace , Bailey Guard Gate , Lal Baradari , Begum Kothi and Kursheed Manzil . Ghazi - ud - din Haider is crowned King of Awadh by the British Governor - General , builds a canal , the tombs of his parents ...
... Saadat Ali Khan builds Dilkusha Palace , Bailey Guard Gate , Lal Baradari , Begum Kothi and Kursheed Manzil . Ghazi - ud - din Haider is crowned King of Awadh by the British Governor - General , builds a canal , the tombs of his parents ...
Page 38
... Saadat Ali Khan's history as a pensioner living under Com- pany protection , as Nawab ( 1798–1814 ) he tried to develop policies providing some degree of autonomy to his government . He sought to transform land revenue grants that had ...
... Saadat Ali Khan's history as a pensioner living under Com- pany protection , as Nawab ( 1798–1814 ) he tried to develop policies providing some degree of autonomy to his government . He sought to transform land revenue grants that had ...
Page 59
... Saadat Ali Khan , who came to the masnad in 1798 , continued the work of beautifying Lucknow . Travellers had criticised the disgusting road along which they had to travel in the old city in order to reach new Lucknow . The street which ...
... Saadat Ali Khan , who came to the masnad in 1798 , continued the work of beautifying Lucknow . Travellers had criticised the disgusting road along which they had to travel in the old city in order to reach new Lucknow . The street which ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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