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 59
... Travellers had criticised the disgusting road along which they had to travel in the old city in order to reach new ... traveller noted that his ' chief gratification seems to be building palaces of an architecture that resembles Grecian ...
... Travellers had criticised the disgusting road along which they had to travel in the old city in order to reach new ... traveller noted that his ' chief gratification seems to be building palaces of an architecture that resembles Grecian ...
Page 65
... Travellers in Nineteenth Century England ' , Indo - British Review , vol . 18 , no . 1 , Madras , pp . 137-41 . ( 1992 ) , A Very Ingenious Man : Claude Martin in Early Colonial India , Delhi , Oxford University Press . Mukherji , P.C. ...
... Travellers in Nineteenth Century England ' , Indo - British Review , vol . 18 , no . 1 , Madras , pp . 137-41 . ( 1992 ) , A Very Ingenious Man : Claude Martin in Early Colonial India , Delhi , Oxford University Press . Mukherji , P.C. ...
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... travellers , Tavernier's and Manucci's for example , abound in picturesque details about these Frenchmen , though no mention is made of the reasons for emigration from Europe . Since the sixteenth century Europeans had turned to the ...
... travellers , Tavernier's and Manucci's for example , abound in picturesque details about these Frenchmen , though no mention is made of the reasons for emigration from Europe . Since the sixteenth century Europeans had turned to the ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
Index 285 | 54 |
Copyright | |
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