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 58
... courtyard cut into the hill . This was the women's quarter , with small , informal rooms . Visitors would be entertained in the larger , public rooms in the front of the building . Baronne remains , even in its ruined state , the ...
... courtyard cut into the hill . This was the women's quarter , with small , informal rooms . Visitors would be entertained in the larger , public rooms in the front of the building . Baronne remains , even in its ruined state , the ...
Page 63
... courtyards with free - standing buildings set in landscaped gardens . In the neo - classical style , Qaisar Bagh resembles the much earlier conceptually Central Asian idea of a walled enclosure with separate pavil- ions . Fatehpur Sikri ...
... courtyards with free - standing buildings set in landscaped gardens . In the neo - classical style , Qaisar Bagh resembles the much earlier conceptually Central Asian idea of a walled enclosure with separate pavil- ions . Fatehpur Sikri ...
Page 107
... court - yard filled with natives and half - castes . The diarists give statistics of the numbers of women and children in the entrenchment at various stages of the siege , and of those that were wounded , killed or widowed , but these ...
... court - yard filled with natives and half - castes . The diarists give statistics of the numbers of women and children in the entrenchment at various stages of the siege , and of those that were wounded , killed or widowed , but these ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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