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 36
... rulers to be hereditary . Status based on achievement was transformed by them into status based on birth . As a contemporary Muslim official in Awadh noted about Asaf - ud - Daula : The Wazir Asaf - ud - Daula expects that people will ...
... rulers to be hereditary . Status based on achievement was transformed by them into status based on birth . As a contemporary Muslim official in Awadh noted about Asaf - ud - Daula : The Wazir Asaf - ud - Daula expects that people will ...
Page 37
... ruler's policies conflicted with the Company's . " Thereupon the Company's long - time client , Saadat Ali Khan - the ... rulers to the Company at below market interest rates ) , and between Rs 80,000,000 and 100,000,000 in ' subsidies ...
... ruler's policies conflicted with the Company's . " Thereupon the Company's long - time client , Saadat Ali Khan - the ... rulers to the Company at below market interest rates ) , and between Rs 80,000,000 and 100,000,000 in ' subsidies ...
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... rulers made a series of massive and forced loans to the East India Com- pany , the over Rs 25,00,000 in annual interest from these loans was largely assigned in perpetuity to specific relatives and dependents of the Awadh dynasty ...
... rulers made a series of massive and forced loans to the East India Com- pany , the over Rs 25,00,000 in annual interest from these loans was largely assigned in perpetuity to specific relatives and dependents of the Awadh dynasty ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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