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 12
... able , after Independence , to get their act together and surge ahead , along with other fellow - citizens , in their quest for a better life . Bitter memories were shrugged aside in search of a prosperous future . Lucknow in those ...
... able , after Independence , to get their act together and surge ahead , along with other fellow - citizens , in their quest for a better life . Bitter memories were shrugged aside in search of a prosperous future . Lucknow in those ...
Page 89
... able to act against the queens ' favourite only by achieving unanimity among the male power elite in Lucknow . More- over , he was able to do so only in the public , male , sphere , outside the spatial reach of the queens ' own ...
... able to act against the queens ' favourite only by achieving unanimity among the male power elite in Lucknow . More- over , he was able to do so only in the public , male , sphere , outside the spatial reach of the queens ' own ...
Page 269
... able , however , to gain complete control of the Municipal Corporation . It is one of the reasons why , along the years , neither the Jan Sangh , nor the BJP , were able to play the role they had visualized for themselves in both the ...
... able , however , to gain complete control of the Municipal Corporation . It is one of the reasons why , along the years , neither the Jan Sangh , nor the BJP , were able to play the role they had visualized for themselves in both the ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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