India's fabled city: the art of courtly Lucknow

Contents

The dynastic history of Lucknow / Stephen Markel -- India's fabled city: narratives of an exhibition / Tushara Bindu Gude -- Lucknow and European society / Rosie Llewellyn-Jones -- Hybrid visions: the cultural landscape of Awadh / Tushara Bindu Gude -- Innovations pious and impious: expressive culture in Nawabi Lucknow / Carla Petievich -- Lucknow's architectural heritage / Catherine Asher -- "A sacred interest": the role of photography in the "City of Mourning" / Sophie Gordon -- Origins of the late Mughal painting tradition in Awadh / Malini Roy -- Of princes and poets in eighteenth-century Lucknow / Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- "This blaze of wealth and magnificence": the luxury arts of Lucknow / Stephen Markel -- Textiles and dress in Lucknow in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Rosemary Crill -- Music in Lucknow's gilded age / Peter Manuel.