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
... landholders and peasants in the exercise of 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 ) ...
... landholders and peasants in the exercise of 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 ) ...
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... landholders thus escaped direct coercion , and could negotiate their payments from a position of strength . As a whole , the landholders maintained an adversarial relationship with the district administration , even as they recognised ...
... landholders thus escaped direct coercion , and could negotiate their payments from a position of strength . As a whole , the landholders maintained an adversarial relationship with the district administration , even as they recognised ...
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... landholders , and peas- ants each intermarried among themselves , each group within its own class and religious community . The lack of sympathy or shared cultural identity between the courtiers and the landholders of Awadh generally ...
... landholders , and peas- ants each intermarried among themselves , each group within its own class and religious community . The lack of sympathy or shared cultural identity between the courtiers and the landholders of Awadh generally ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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