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 99
... published soon after . Mrs E. Soppitt was the 18 year - old spouse of the adjutant of one of the Irregular Corps which were raised at Lucknow a few months before the beginning of the Rebellion . She settled in the Residency on the eve ...
... published soon after . Mrs E. Soppitt was the 18 year - old spouse of the adjutant of one of the Irregular Corps which were raised at Lucknow a few months before the beginning of the Rebellion . She settled in the Residency on the eve ...
Page 100
... published . They were all intended for relatives in England , and in fact represented a substitute for correspondence , which had become impossible . Harris ( 1858 : iii - iv ) wrote to her family in December 1857 : I have kept a rough ...
... published . They were all intended for relatives in England , and in fact represented a substitute for correspondence , which had become impossible . Harris ( 1858 : iii - iv ) wrote to her family in December 1857 : I have kept a rough ...
Page 132
... published from Lahore , Asad , Nazzara and the Akhbar- i Imamia , published fortnightly ( Rizvi , 1988 : Chapter 5 ) . With developments around the country heading towards greater Hindu - Muslim friction , sectarian competition began to ...
... published from Lahore , Asad , Nazzara and the Akhbar- i Imamia , published fortnightly ( Rizvi , 1988 : Chapter 5 ) . With developments around the country heading towards greater Hindu - Muslim friction , sectarian competition began to ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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