Lucknow - Memories of a City

Author: Violette Graff
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 299
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195648870

Description

Lucknow 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.

A set of 15 brilliantly researched essays discusses the strands that shaped the culture of the city as expressed in its arts, architecture, language and music. The volume represents a mature selection of some of the best contemporary scholarship on the history and culture of Lucknow.

COMMENTS:

It would certainly be useful for academics and scholars of history but will also interest lay readers.

Sociologists, political scientists, armchair aficionados: all would find something of abiding interest in this book.