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 51
... built on a number of small hills south of the river Gomti . Visitors complained that ' the ground is so uneven that one cannot walk about in this city except by detours , climbing up here , going down there ' ( Tieffenthaler , 1786-88 ...
... built on a number of small hills south of the river Gomti . Visitors complained that ' the ground is so uneven that one cannot walk about in this city except by detours , climbing up here , going down there ' ( Tieffenthaler , 1786-88 ...
Page 58
... built the Asafi Kothi also built Baronne . Martin's last building , unfinished at his death in 1800 , was the great house of Constantia to the south - east of the city . Its architectural style has baffled writers for years , one in ...
... built the Asafi Kothi also built Baronne . Martin's last building , unfinished at his death in 1800 , was the great house of Constantia to the south - east of the city . Its architectural style has baffled writers for years , one in ...
Page 59
... built new chowk in the centre , with a lofty gateway at each extremity , which present a Grecian front on one side and a Moorish one on the other ( Hamilton , 1928 , II : 131 ) . Hazratganj was a processional path designed to show off ...
... built new chowk in the centre , with a lofty gateway at each extremity , which present a Grecian front on one side and a Moorish one on the other ( Hamilton , 1928 , II : 131 ) . Hazratganj was a processional path designed to show off ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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