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 10
... land to the cultivators . Not many shed tears over the collapse of an exploitative land system . The Awadh taluqdars , as also their counterparts in Western U.P. , lost their raison d'etre in a society that was rapidly changing under ...
... land to the cultivators . Not many shed tears over the collapse of an exploitative land system . The Awadh taluqdars , as also their counterparts in Western U.P. , lost their raison d'etre in a society that was rapidly changing under ...
Page 20
... land- holders of their own caste . The scale of their mobilisation against im- perial power could not transcend divisions of caste and community and failed to incorporate the interests of other regional groups . In many cases their ...
... land- holders of their own caste . The scale of their mobilisation against im- perial power could not transcend divisions of caste and community and failed to incorporate the interests of other regional groups . In many cases their ...
Page 282
... land in the form of land revenue . The abolition of zamindaris in the post - Independence period dealt a severe blow to Muslim zamindars and the distant descendants of the former Nawab . Most of them had been absentee landlords , hardly ...
... land in the form of land revenue . The abolition of zamindaris in the post - Independence period dealt a severe blow to Muslim zamindars and the distant descendants of the former Nawab . Most of them had been absentee landlords , hardly ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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