Lucknow: Memories of a CityViolette Graff Oxford University Press, 1997 - 299 pages Lucknow, the city of nawabi grandeur, has served as the backdrop for a number of historical and social studies, but not as a theme of exploration in itself. This book focuses on Lucknow and covers 250 years of its eventful history. It deals with the position Lucknow held in the panorama of Mughal politics; its rise to grandeur during the days of the nawabs; the trials and tribulations of its populace during the Mutiny and the conflicts which emerged as part of Lucknow's transformation into a colonial city. Its rise to political pre-eminence after Independence, the large-scale influx of refugees and migrants, the changing fortunes of the erstwhile aristocracy and the elite are analysed in this volume with remarkable candour. This volume is for connoisseurs of Indian culture as well as scholars interested in the urban history of South Asia. |
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... able , after Independence , to get their act together and surge ahead , along with other fellow - citizens , in their quest for a better life . Bitter memories were shrugged aside in search of a prosperous future . Lucknow in those ...
... able , after Independence , to get their act together and surge ahead , along with other fellow - citizens , in their quest for a better life . Bitter memories were shrugged aside in search of a prosperous future . Lucknow in those ...
Page 87
... able to overturn a decision of the Shi'ite chief mujtahid , however , we would be forgetting that the initiator of the crisis was the Shah's mother . She first hit upon the conventions of Hindu folk culture in order to keep a favourite ...
... able to overturn a decision of the Shi'ite chief mujtahid , however , we would be forgetting that the initiator of the crisis was the Shah's mother . She first hit upon the conventions of Hindu folk culture in order to keep a favourite ...
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... able to act against the queens ' favourite only by achieving unanimity among the male power elite in Lucknow . More- over , he was able to do so only in the public , male , sphere , outside the spatial reach of the queens ' own ...
... able to act against the queens ' favourite only by achieving unanimity among the male power elite in Lucknow . More- over , he was able to do so only in the public , male , sphere , outside the spatial reach of the queens ' own ...
Contents
The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside | 16 |
Awadh and the English East India Company | 32 |
Lucknow City of Dreams | 49 |
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