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 80
... seems to have been interested in the experimental side of sciences as much as in the theoretical . He had ordered from Europe an astonishing number of scientific and mathematical instru- ments , the usage of some of which is given as ...
... seems to have been interested in the experimental side of sciences as much as in the theoretical . He had ordered from Europe an astonishing number of scientific and mathematical instru- ments , the usage of some of which is given as ...
Page 163
... seem to be a very conventional kind of talk . Indeed , by 1915 , many Indians — Hindu and Muslim — had already gone beyond the sentiments expressed here by Karamat Husain . Yet , for the daughters of the taluqdars of Awadh and the ...
... seem to be a very conventional kind of talk . Indeed , by 1915 , many Indians — Hindu and Muslim — had already gone beyond the sentiments expressed here by Karamat Husain . Yet , for the daughters of the taluqdars of Awadh and the ...
Page 242
... seems that he tried his best to pacify three dignitaries who were pleading forcefully against the ' illegal ' closure of the Ramjanambhoomi . He would take necessary action , he said , but he needed a month's time to study the available ...
... seems that he tried his best to pacify three dignitaries who were pleading forcefully against the ' illegal ' closure of the Ramjanambhoomi . He would take necessary action , he said , but he needed a month's time to study the available ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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