A Fatal Friendship: The Nawabs, the British, and the City of LucknowOxford University Press, 1985 - 284 pages The city of Lucknow, once described as "the last example of the old pomp and refinement of Hindustan", still remains one of the most interesting cities of north India. This lively urban history presents a panorama of the political, cultural, and architectural life of Lucknow during its heyday: from the ascendancy of the first nawab in the early 18th century to the deposition of the last nawab in 1856. Focusing on the architecture itself and the particular psychologies that lay behind the building facades, the author draws some intriguing conclusions about nawabi Lucknow and the colonial mind in its relation to Indian urban life. |
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Page 168
... surrounded by walls of differing heights , where the various separate buildings were subjugated to form an integral part of the whole complex . No one building normally assumed undue prominence over another and there were in any case ...
... surrounded by walls of differing heights , where the various separate buildings were subjugated to form an integral part of the whole complex . No one building normally assumed undue prominence over another and there were in any case ...
Page 201
... surrounded by trees , all lay at our feet ' , 15 Russell was not the first to comment on the somewhat promiscuous siting of the houses of the rich among the mean and squalid streets of the city . Bishop Heber , one of the few Europeans ...
... surrounded by trees , all lay at our feet ' , 15 Russell was not the first to comment on the somewhat promiscuous siting of the houses of the rich among the mean and squalid streets of the city . Bishop Heber , one of the few Europeans ...
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... surrounded by a masonry stair - well . Even buildings as palatial as the Asafi Kothi continued the tradition of small and awkward staircases , which were a curiously neglected area that owed nothing to the European idea of grand ...
... surrounded by a masonry stair - well . Even buildings as palatial as the Asafi Kothi continued the tradition of small and awkward staircases , which were a curiously neglected area that owed nothing to the European idea of grand ...
Contents
The Three Cities of Lucknow | 1 |
The Europeans of Lucknow | 17 |
European Dreams and Indian Fantasies | 41 |
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