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 52
... gateway ( the Panch Mahalla entrance ) , he created the Bara or Asafi Imambara . ( This was probably the first , and ... gateways with the adjacent Asafi mosque , another long , low building , its three onion domes dwarfed by sturdy ...
... gateway ( the Panch Mahalla entrance ) , he created the Bara or Asafi Imambara . ( This was probably the first , and ... gateways with the adjacent Asafi mosque , another long , low building , its three onion domes dwarfed by sturdy ...
Page 59
... gateway at each extremity , which present a Grecian front on one side and a Moorish one on the other ( Hamilton , 1928 , II : 131 ) . Hazratganj was a processional path designed to show off the new European - style houses along it , and ...
... gateway at each extremity , which present a Grecian front on one side and a Moorish one on the other ( Hamilton , 1928 , II : 131 ) . Hazratganj was a processional path designed to show off the new European - style houses along it , and ...
Page 61
... gateway . Only the latter now exists , as an interpre- tation of Chinoiserie that travelled from China , via England , to India . Europeans living in India wanted buildings that reminded them of ' Home ' , to make their temporary exile ...
... gateway . Only the latter now exists , as an interpre- tation of Chinoiserie that travelled from China , via England , to India . Europeans living in India wanted buildings that reminded them of ' Home ' , to make their temporary exile ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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