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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Memories of a City Violette Graff. 10 Urdu in Lucknow / Lucknow in Urdu C.M. NAIM CARLA PETIEVICH The first flowering of what later came to be called Urdu poetry occur- red in the kingdoms of Bijapur and Golkonda , followed by a second ...
Memories of a City Violette Graff. 10 Urdu in Lucknow / Lucknow in Urdu C.M. NAIM CARLA PETIEVICH The first flowering of what later came to be called Urdu poetry occur- red in the kingdoms of Bijapur and Golkonda , followed by a second ...
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... Urdu that seems to characterise Lucknow . It may be relevant to note here that while the last Persian dastan in India was composed around the middle of the eighteenth century in Delhi , the first ... Urdu in Lucknow / Lucknow in Urdu / 169.
... Urdu that seems to characterise Lucknow . It may be relevant to note here that while the last Persian dastan in India was composed around the middle of the eighteenth century in Delhi , the first ... Urdu in Lucknow / Lucknow in Urdu / 169.
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... Urdu scholars of the twentieth century : Rivers of wealth flowed , riches rained down from the sky ... there was a proliferation of pleasure - seeking , an excess of material wealth . This state of ... Urdu in Lucknow / Lucknow in Urdu / 173.
... Urdu scholars of the twentieth century : Rivers of wealth flowed , riches rained down from the sky ... there was a proliferation of pleasure - seeking , an excess of material wealth . This state of ... Urdu in Lucknow / Lucknow in Urdu / 173.
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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