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 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 ...
Page 61
... buildings . There was a fascination in Europe , and particularly England , at this time , with ' exotic ' forms from the East , and one finds ' Chinese ' pavilions along the wall at Baronne , a six - storeyed pagoda in the Daulat Khana ...
... buildings . There was a fascination in Europe , and particularly England , at this time , with ' exotic ' forms from the East , and one finds ' Chinese ' pavilions along the wall at Baronne , a six - storeyed pagoda in the Daulat Khana ...
Page 63
... buildings , covering a great area to the south - west of Luck- now , incorporating other structures that had grown up on the outskirts of the city , like the tomb of Saadat Ali Khan and his wife , the small British cemetery , and the ...
... buildings , covering a great area to the south - west of Luck- now , incorporating other structures that had grown up on the outskirts of the city , like the tomb of Saadat Ali Khan and his wife , the small British cemetery , and the ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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