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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... architecture could be described as post - modern , for its catholic borrowing of styles ranged even more widely than ... architectural feature of Lucknow , the imambaras ( ceremonial halls used during Mohurram ) had been built . The ...
... architecture could be described as post - modern , for its catholic borrowing of styles ranged even more widely than ... architectural feature of Lucknow , the imambaras ( ceremonial halls used during Mohurram ) had been built . The ...
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... architecture until annexation , fifty or so years later . Echoes of it appear in the statues that adorned the Qaisar ... architecture in Lucknow , and it is possible that he was respons- ible for designing some of the buildings of this ...
... architecture until annexation , fifty or so years later . Echoes of it appear in the statues that adorned the Qaisar ... architecture in Lucknow , and it is possible that he was respons- ible for designing some of the buildings of this ...
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... architecture gave them , they thought , the status they needed in India , as foreign rulers . But the copying by the nawabs of buildings in Europe which they had only seen in illustrations , is harder to understand . The answer seems to ...
... architecture gave them , they thought , the status they needed in India , as foreign rulers . But the copying by the nawabs of buildings in Europe which they had only seen in illustrations , is harder to understand . The answer seems to ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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