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 19
... imperial control . Typically , a landholder in Awadh based his local control and military power on links of kinship and service with kinsmen in the villages on his estate ( Fox , 1981 ) . Rural pressure often took the form of a ...
... imperial control . Typically , a landholder in Awadh based his local control and military power on links of kinship and service with kinsmen in the villages on his estate ( Fox , 1981 ) . Rural pressure often took the form of a ...
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... imperial authority , sometimes through linkages with imperial court politics . In the emerging political situation , service and loyalty to the imperial authority ceased to count , for it was not the Emperor but the provincial governor ...
... imperial authority , sometimes through linkages with imperial court politics . In the emerging political situation , service and loyalty to the imperial authority ceased to count , for it was not the Emperor but the provincial governor ...
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... imperial court . The social and political realities of the eighteenth century required at least a semblance of reference to the imperial centre . All sources of growth had not dried up , and no region was in a position to maintain ...
... imperial court . The social and political realities of the eighteenth century required at least a semblance of reference to the imperial centre . All sources of growth had not dried up , and no region was in a position to maintain ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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