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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... century later Emperor Aurangzeb gave it the status of a university town by establishing a semin- ary in the escheated estate of a Dutch merchant . This became known as Firangi Mahal , and played a key role in twentieth - century ...
... century later Emperor Aurangzeb gave it the status of a university town by establishing a semin- ary in the escheated estate of a Dutch merchant . This became known as Firangi Mahal , and played a key role in twentieth - century ...
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Memories of a City Violette Graff. 4 The French in Lucknow in the Eighteenth Century JEAN - MARIE LAFONT Claude Martin of Lyons was a well - known figure among the Europeans of Lucknow in the second half of the eighteenth century ( Hill ...
Memories of a City Violette Graff. 4 The French in Lucknow in the Eighteenth Century JEAN - MARIE LAFONT Claude Martin of Lyons was a well - known figure among the Europeans of Lucknow in the second half of the eighteenth century ( Hill ...
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... century : Rivers of wealth flowed , riches rained down from the sky ... there was a proliferation of pleasure ... century The cultural rivalry between Lucknow and Delhi was born with the inception of Lucknow's court culture in the 1780s ...
... century : Rivers of wealth flowed , riches rained down from the sky ... there was a proliferation of pleasure ... century The cultural rivalry between Lucknow and Delhi was born with the inception of Lucknow's court culture in the 1780s ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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