This book focuses on less well-known aspects of Lucknow's life and history and it's daily attrac tions. These inlcude the bazaars with delectable foods to tempt the palate, the craftspeople who even today create delicate works of art, the architecture (from imambaras and karbalas to Victorian, Edwardian, and Modernist structures),
A volume in the "Worlds of the East India Company" series, edited by Huw Bowen. The events of 1857-58 in India are seen here through a series of untold stories which show that they were much more complex than hitherto thought. Drawing on sources in Britain and India, including contemporary East India Company records, together with oral memories ...
Since Independence, the princes and regional rulers of India have mostly been seen as anachronistic figures too closely associated with the former colonial government, and often seen as a byword for outlandish extravagance and mild despotism. When they were stripped of their privy purses by Indira Gandhi, there were more protests in Britain than ...
This book includes curious stories of the people who inhabited the exotic and vanished world of Nawabi Lucknow, especially the many rogues and villains, some of them British. Using material not used before and containing a number of previousy unpublished illustrations, it takes a look at the undiscovered side of Nawabi Lucknow.
Culturally and architecturally one of the most interesting cities of north India, Lucknow is studied here both in an historical context and with particular reference to its rich architectural heritage.
This omnibus edition puts together three works on the history and culture of Lucknow during British colonial rule. The three books examine this phase from different yet complimentary points of view.
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