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 59
... original house was dwarfed by the Bara and Chhota Chattar Manzil , the Lal Baradari , the Darshan Bilas , tanks and rose gardens . Saadat Ali Khan took an active interest in promoting European- inspired architecture in Lucknow , and it ...
... original house was dwarfed by the Bara and Chhota Chattar Manzil , the Lal Baradari , the Darshan Bilas , tanks and rose gardens . Saadat Ali Khan took an active interest in promoting European- inspired architecture in Lucknow , and it ...
Page 61
... originals in Western Asia . The Kazmain , with its twin brass domes , is copied from a tomb in Iraq , and the imambaras ... original kuchcha structure rebuilt in pukka materials , and an Indo - European gateway was erected in front of it ...
... originals in Western Asia . The Kazmain , with its twin brass domes , is copied from a tomb in Iraq , and the imambaras ... original kuchcha structure rebuilt in pukka materials , and an Indo - European gateway was erected in front of it ...
Page 79
... originals or Indian copies of a European original : ' 1 [ landscape ] copy by a native artist ' , ' 6 fancy figures by native painters ' , and so on . We would like to know the names of the Indian painters who worked for Martin and who ...
... originals or Indian copies of a European original : ' 1 [ landscape ] copy by a native artist ' , ' 6 fancy figures by native painters ' , and so on . We would like to know the names of the Indian painters who worked for Martin and who ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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