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 105
... hands at Meerut , Sitapur and elsewhere . Shortly before the beginning of the siege , the then Colonel Inglis had ... hand ( laudanum or prussic acid ) , or made suicide pacts with their husbands . Others , however , held the opposite ...
... hands at Meerut , Sitapur and elsewhere . Shortly before the beginning of the siege , the then Colonel Inglis had ... hand ( laudanum or prussic acid ) , or made suicide pacts with their husbands . Others , however , held the opposite ...
Page 173
... hand ; and considering , on the other hand , the force of a colonial discourse generated by the British in the nineteenth century The cultural rivalry between Lucknow and Delhi was born with the inception of Lucknow's court culture in ...
... hand ; and considering , on the other hand , the force of a colonial discourse generated by the British in the nineteenth century The cultural rivalry between Lucknow and Delhi was born with the inception of Lucknow's court culture in ...
Page 279
... hand , there were the exclusive stores where one peeped in or mustered up enough courage to enter and ask the price of a thing one could not afford , and on the other hand , there were the kiosks all along the veran- dah where cheaper ...
... hand , there were the exclusive stores where one peeped in or mustered up enough courage to enter and ask the price of a thing one could not afford , and on the other hand , there were the kiosks all along the veran- dah where cheaper ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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