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 91
... Event and the Victorian Mind on India JACQUES POUCHEPADASS What is an event ? For whom does a given historical occurrence or succes- sion of occurrences constitute an historical event ? We are accustomed to view the gradation of ...
... Event and the Victorian Mind on India JACQUES POUCHEPADASS What is an event ? For whom does a given historical occurrence or succes- sion of occurrences constitute an historical event ? We are accustomed to view the gradation of ...
Page 93
... events was Henry Lawrence's decision to fortify the Residency and to defend it as an islet of British valour in the wild ocean of the Rebellion . The Indian perception of the event and its memory in the local tradition ( oral and ...
... events was Henry Lawrence's decision to fortify the Residency and to defend it as an islet of British valour in the wild ocean of the Rebellion . The Indian perception of the event and its memory in the local tradition ( oral and ...
Page 110
... event actually reached the public at large , and whether they were successful in destroying the memory of the repulsive details which had been repeated and believed both in India and in England at the height of the event . Each of the ...
... event actually reached the public at large , and whether they were successful in destroying the memory of the repulsive details which had been repeated and believed both in India and in England at the height of the event . Each 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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