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 25
... governor's ad- ministration that the office now was restyled nazim or naib , ' deputy ' of the governor . Another consequence of this assertion of the governor's power was the diminishing authority of the local Islamic judges ( qazis ) ...
... governor's ad- ministration that the office now was restyled nazim or naib , ' deputy ' of the governor . Another consequence of this assertion of the governor's power was the diminishing authority of the local Islamic judges ( qazis ) ...
Page 26
... governor's appointed administrators for matters relating to the revenue and their own customary perquisites . In other words , the administrative functions that some jagir - holders had established over their jagirs , namely ...
... governor's appointed administrators for matters relating to the revenue and their own customary perquisites . In other words , the administrative functions that some jagir - holders had established over their jagirs , namely ...
Page 45
... Governor - General to annex the state on the ambiguous grounds of ' misgovernment ' . In British eyes , Wajid Ali Shah had became notorious for his devotion to poetry , religion , and / or sensual pleasure rather than the affairs of ...
... Governor - General to annex the state on the ambiguous grounds of ' misgovernment ' . In British eyes , Wajid Ali Shah had became notorious for his devotion to poetry , religion , and / or sensual pleasure rather than the affairs of ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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