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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... Superintendent of the nawabi arsenal ( Llewellyn - Jones , 1992 ) , Antoine Polier , court architect , Robert Home and George Duncan Beechey , court artists . Only Martin's ex- traordinary buildings remain as evidence of these ...
... Superintendent of the nawabi arsenal ( Llewellyn - Jones , 1992 ) , Antoine Polier , court architect , Robert Home and George Duncan Beechey , court artists . Only Martin's ex- traordinary buildings remain as evidence of these ...
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... superintendent of police reported the out- break of a Shia - Sunni riot and the impending threat of the Ahrars to take out a Madhe Sahaba procession defying government orders . 10 June 1939 , Diaries , Harold Charles Mitchell Papers ...
... superintendent of police reported the out- break of a Shia - Sunni riot and the impending threat of the Ahrars to take out a Madhe Sahaba procession defying government orders . 10 June 1939 , Diaries , Harold Charles Mitchell Papers ...
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... Superintendent , Printing and Stationery . Census ( 1951 ) , Census of India 1951 , vol . II , Uttar Pradesh , Pt . I - A , Report , Allaha- bad , Superintendent , Printing and Stationery . Church , Roderick ( 1976 ) , ' Political ...
... Superintendent , Printing and Stationery . Census ( 1951 ) , Census of India 1951 , vol . II , Uttar Pradesh , Pt . I - A , Report , Allaha- bad , Superintendent , Printing and Stationery . Church , Roderick ( 1976 ) , ' Political ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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