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Lucknow

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Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Mar 26, 1999 - History - 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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Contents

The Awadh Regime the Mughals and the Countryside
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f2 Awadh and the English East India Company
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The French in Lucknow in the Eighteenth Century
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Lucknow: memories of a city
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TitleLucknow
Oxford India Paperbacks Series
EditorGraff Violette
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated, 1999
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized8 Sep 2008
ISBN0195648870, 9780195648874
Length299 pages
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History / Asia / India & South Asia
History / Social History
  
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