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 54
... buildings decay and brick- work becomes visible , can one appreciate that all those glittering ' marble ' facades were indeed a sham . The first new building that Asaf - ud - Daula commissioned , six months after his father's death ...
... buildings decay and brick- work becomes visible , can one appreciate that all those glittering ' marble ' facades were indeed a sham . The first new building that Asaf - ud - Daula commissioned , six months after his father's death ...
Page 57
... building departments . Even the names of the Indian architects who built most of Lucknow are mainly unknown to- day , and no original plans exist . Measured drawings have been made recently of buildings which are still extant , like the ...
... building departments . Even the names of the Indian architects who built most of Lucknow are mainly unknown to- day , and no original plans exist . Measured drawings have been made recently of buildings which are still extant , like the ...
Page 60
... buildings is known only from a pencil sketch made in 1814 by Robert Smith of ' The Nawab's New House ' ( Album , Print and Drawings Collection , IOL ) . It is a de- tached , two storeyed , neo - classical building , with a central dome ...
... buildings is known only from a pencil sketch made in 1814 by Robert Smith of ' The Nawab's New House ' ( Album , Print and Drawings Collection , IOL ) . It is a de- tached , two storeyed , neo - classical building , with a central dome ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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