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 63
... standing buildings set in landscaped gardens . In the neo - classical style , Qaisar Bagh resembles the much earlier conceptually Central Asian idea of a walled enclosure with separate pavil- ions . Fatehpur Sikri , with its great ...
... standing buildings set in landscaped gardens . In the neo - classical style , Qaisar Bagh resembles the much earlier conceptually Central Asian idea of a walled enclosure with separate pavil- ions . Fatehpur Sikri , with its great ...
Page 111
... standing as they were after the final reconquest of Lucknow , and turned into a memorial and museum , on which the Union Jack flew until the end of the Raj . It be- came a place of pilgrimage , like the memorial erected on the site of ...
... standing as they were after the final reconquest of Lucknow , and turned into a memorial and museum , on which the Union Jack flew until the end of the Raj . It be- came a place of pilgrimage , like the memorial erected on the site of ...
Page 201
... standing out against the golden glory of the setting sun . All that was best in me , and perhaps something more , I gave to Lucknow ( Harcourt Butler Papers , 100 , IOL ) . His personal preference apart , Butler's concern to defend and ...
... standing out against the golden glory of the setting sun . All that was best in me , and perhaps something more , I gave to Lucknow ( Harcourt Butler Papers , 100 , IOL ) . His personal preference apart , Butler's concern to defend and ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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