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
... erected after his death , but there are strong architectural reasons to believe that whoever 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 ...
... erected after his death , but there are strong architectural reasons to believe that whoever 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 ...
Page 59
... erected in a few months , surged forward again . Constantia is possibly the single most important European building in Lucknow , one that was to influence nawabi architecture until annexation , fifty or so years later . Echoes of it ...
... erected in a few months , surged forward again . Constantia is possibly the single most important European building in Lucknow , one that was to influence nawabi architecture until annexation , fifty or so years later . Echoes of it ...
Page 61
... erected , like Constantia , it was perfectly acceptable to lift features from it . Hence the derivative nature of Lucknow architecture requires that we consider religious and secular structures together . One of the most important ...
... erected , like Constantia , it was perfectly acceptable to lift features from it . Hence the derivative nature of Lucknow architecture requires that we consider religious and secular structures together . One of the most important ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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