India: Marg Publications, Date: 2003. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 250mm x 310mm. Jacket has light general wear and no tears. A tiny label abrasion to top corner of ffep, otherwise internally clean. Binding tight. 148pp. 2003. Marg Publications ISBN 8185026610 9788185026619 [AU]

Marg Foundation, Date: 2006-08-02. Hardcover. New. 2006. Marg Foundation ISBN 8185026610 9788185026619 [US]

148 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 32 cm. Grey cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket. This copy from the library of Patricia, Countess Jellicoe with her address card loosely inserted. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging. Date: 2003. Marg Publications on behalf of the National Centre for the Performing Arts ISBN 8185026610 9788185026619 [GB]

ISBN10: 8185026610, ISBN13: 9788185026619, [publisher: Marg] Hardcover Contents: Introduction. I. The living city: 1. Off the tourist trail: the 'Unknown' Lucknow/Rosie Llewellyn-Jones. 2. Lucknow food, streets, and bazaars/Mukul Mangalik. 3. Arts and crafts: Lucknow's living tradition/Sudipta Dev. II. Secular and religious institutions: 1. A journey through Lucknow's schools and colleges/Ian Shepherd. 2. Building on past traditions: the Victorian, Edwardian, and modernist architecture of Lucknow/Christopher W. London. 3. Lucknow's imambaras and karbalas/Neeta Das. III. The visual arts: 1. The exploration of nawabi culture by European collectors in 18 century Lucknow/Lucian Harris. 2. Painting at Lucknow 1775-1850/J.P. Losty. 3. A silent eloquence: photography in 19 century Lucknow/Sophie Gordon. Select bibliography. Index.Although many people believe that Lucknow's finest period was during the time of the nawabs, its history did not begin in 1775 when the court of Awadh returned to Lucknow permanently, any more than it finished in 1856 when the last nawab Wajid Ali Shah travelled into exile and Lucknow presented the picture of a looted city. Pre-nawabi Lucknow was a flourishing city that lay mainly to the south of the Gomti with several Mughal structures along the river. Under the nawabs the city became synonymous with extravagance, the creative arts and patronage of artists, and extraordinary buildings. It went on to become a battlegrou ...

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