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 56
... complex was never a clearly defined area laid out on virgin land . Company officials , arriving at first in small numbers , as emissaries to a flourishing , rich court , had to take what they were given . By the time the Company was ...
... complex was never a clearly defined area laid out on virgin land . Company officials , arriving at first in small numbers , as emissaries to a flourishing , rich court , had to take what they were given . By the time the Company was ...
Page 57
... complex , but we can only speculate on the architect . Antoine Polier may have designed this imposing semi- European structure , but if so , he had left Lucknow for good before it was completed in the late 1780s . Claude Martin may have ...
... complex , but we can only speculate on the architect . Antoine Polier may have designed this imposing semi- European structure , but if so , he had left Lucknow for good before it was completed in the late 1780s . Claude Martin may have ...
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... complex was begun in 1848 and completed four years later . It was an extraordi- nary series of buildings , covering a great area to the south - west of Luck- now , incorporating other structures that had grown up on the outskirts of the ...
... complex was begun in 1848 and completed four years later . It was an extraordi- nary series of buildings , covering a great area to the south - west of Luck- now , incorporating other structures that had grown up on the outskirts of the ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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