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 235
... party had anticipated . It carried a bitter lesson for the former Jan Sangh , the main component of the Janata in UP . It had relied on the assumed prestige of the Harijan leader , Jagjivan Ram . However , for all his experience as a ...
... party had anticipated . It carried a bitter lesson for the former Jan Sangh , the main component of the Janata in UP . It had relied on the assumed prestige of the Harijan leader , Jagjivan Ram . However , for all his experience as a ...
Page 240
... Party , the Hindu party , was almost wiped out with just 6.4 per cent votes and not a single seat ( in 1952 the newly - born Jan Sangh had managed 7.3 per cent ) . The Janata fared even worse with 3.6 per cent votes . Most opposition ...
... Party , the Hindu party , was almost wiped out with just 6.4 per cent votes and not a single seat ( in 1952 the newly - born Jan Sangh had managed 7.3 per cent ) . The Janata fared even worse with 3.6 per cent votes . Most opposition ...
Page 251
... party was still the largest single formation . More serious was the fact that the actual winners had no national mandate ( Padgaonkar 1989 ; Mitra , 1989 ) . The much celebrated Janata Dal had less than one fifth of the total vote ...
... party was still the largest single formation . More serious was the fact that the actual winners had no national mandate ( Padgaonkar 1989 ; Mitra , 1989 ) . The much celebrated Janata Dal had less than one fifth of the total vote ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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