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 100
... live our siege life over in imagination , and the little details would interest you ; besides the comfort of talking to you . Some , like Mrs Soppitt , wrote not only for their families , but for them- selves . ' Whilst shut up , I kept ...
... live our siege life over in imagination , and the little details would interest you ; besides the comfort of talking to you . Some , like Mrs Soppitt , wrote not only for their families , but for them- selves . ' Whilst shut up , I kept ...
Page 162
... lives easier and evil as that which gives them pain , or makes their lives harder . In the work of life , he went on , there is a division of labour between men and women . Among the Indian middle classes , the division of labour is as ...
... lives easier and evil as that which gives them pain , or makes their lives harder . In the work of life , he went on , there is a division of labour between men and women . Among the Indian middle classes , the division of labour is as ...
Page 219
... live on pavements or under trees . Another fifteen per cent are huddled together in single room tenements and only eleven per cent of the families have four or more rooms per family . As many as twenty - seven per cent of the families live ...
... live on pavements or under trees . Another fifteen per cent are huddled together in single room tenements and only eleven per cent of the families have four or more rooms per family . As many as twenty - seven per cent of the families live ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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