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
... Sunni raja of Nanpara had 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 ...
... Sunni raja of Nanpara had 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 ...
Page 130
... Sunni Islam was just as much ' corrupted ' by the incorporation of Hindu beliefs and customs as by the adoption of Shia practices . So a campaign was mounted at the turn of the nineteenth century to question shared cultural , religious ...
... Sunni Islam was just as much ' corrupted ' by the incorporation of Hindu beliefs and customs as by the adoption of Shia practices . So a campaign was mounted at the turn of the nineteenth century to question shared cultural , religious ...
Page 133
... Sunnis was eroded . It turned out that both the context and the reference point of Shia and Sunni leaders were rapidly eroded by the powerful Muslim League drive for a separate ' Muslim nation ' . The options were suddenly diminished ...
... Sunnis was eroded . It turned out that both the context and the reference point of Shia and Sunni leaders were rapidly eroded by the powerful Muslim League drive for a separate ' Muslim nation ' . The options were suddenly diminished ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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