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 120
... Shia ulama read to him elegies for Husain ( Cole , 1988 : 105 ) . Rural Muslims in 1897 , Crooke ( 1975 : 263 ) declared , joined in the Mohurram observances ' almost without distinction of sect ' . In a small north Indian princely ...
... Shia ulama read to him elegies for Husain ( Cole , 1988 : 105 ) . Rural Muslims in 1897 , Crooke ( 1975 : 263 ) declared , joined in the Mohurram observances ' almost without distinction of sect ' . In a small north Indian princely ...
Page 123
... Shia Political Conference ' , petitioned the government in December 1909 to enumer- ate the Shia population separately in the census , and insisted on the separate and distinct identity of the Shias . The conference , initially formed ...
... Shia Political Conference ' , petitioned the government in December 1909 to enumer- ate the Shia population separately in the census , and insisted on the separate and distinct identity of the Shias . The conference , initially formed ...
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... Shia school in Lucknow . The Shia college was the brainchild of a land- owner of Lahore and patronised by Nawab Hamid Ali Khan of Rampur ( 1875-1930 ) and the U.P. government . Rs 3,17,410 was raised by 1916 and the college opened in ...
... Shia school in Lucknow . The Shia college was the brainchild of a land- owner of Lahore and patronised by Nawab Hamid Ali Khan of Rampur ( 1875-1930 ) and the U.P. government . Rs 3,17,410 was raised by 1916 and the college opened in ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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