To know the real Lucknow you must visit its busy markets from tasty kebabs in Chowk to soft chikankari in Nakhas each place ...

Lucknow's nawab Wajid Ali Shah was beyond art, played a role in boosting poetry & thumris, says dastango Himanshu Bajpai. Story by S Farah Rizvi • 3mo ...

When the last Nawab, Wajid Ali Shah, became the ruler of Awadh on February 13, 1847, he gave Rs 4,50,000 for the maintenance of the royal observatory. However, the same year, the ...

Titled “Legacy of the Later Nawabs,” the walk was organised by the Citizens for Lucknow group and inaugurated by Dr PC Sarkar, an ex-principal scientist at ICAR, author, and heritage resource ...

LUCKNOW: If Rampur is going to polls, the family of its nawab can't be kept away from action. So, in an interesting turn of events, Nawab Kazim Ali Khan aka Naved Mian, who is a senior member of ...

Wargue that the cultural vibrancy of Lucknow was due to its debauched nature. Nawabi architecture materialised – in pleasure palaces, harems, and other spatial types – as a gradual adaptation ...

The unfortunate Wajid Ali Shah was a king without a kingdom. Caught between “two mutually opposed forces, the dying Mughal Empire and the expanding British one”*, he was stripped of his powers as the ...

Lucknow's nawab Wajid Ali Shah was beyond art, played a role in boosting poetry & thumris, says dastango Himanshu Bajpai. By S Farah Rizvi. Published on: Aug 22, 2024 08:22 pm IST .