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 57
... majority of the Court records of Lucknow were lost . Isolated papers remain , usually because they were sent out from Lucknow and have been discovered in other archives , but nothing appears to survive about the nawabi building ...
... majority of the Court records of Lucknow were lost . Isolated papers remain , usually because they were sent out from Lucknow and have been discovered in other archives , but nothing appears to survive about the nawabi building ...
Page 84
... majority - Hindu region where Sunnism predominated even among the thirteen per cent of the population that adhered to Islam . In this cont text , the Shi'ite nobility , both male and female , displayed their religious practices and ...
... majority - Hindu region where Sunnism predominated even among the thirteen per cent of the population that adhered to Islam . In this cont text , the Shi'ite nobility , both male and female , displayed their religious practices and ...
Page 235
... majority in only three constituencies despite a not insignificant number of votes . It was a disaster that nobody in the party had anticipated . It carried a bitter lesson for the former Jan Sangh , the main component of the Janata in ...
... majority in only three constituencies despite a not insignificant number of votes . It was a disaster that nobody in the party had anticipated . It carried a bitter lesson for the former Jan Sangh , the main component of the Janata in ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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