File:A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon . (1911) (14801475823).jpg

Identifier: handbooktravelle00john (find matches)
Title: A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon .
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: John Murray (Firm)
Subjects: India -- Guidebooks Burma -- Guidebooks Sri Lanka -- Guidebooks
Publisher: London : J. Murray Calcutta : Thacker, Spink, & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
hich appears on so many ofthe royal buildings is the mark ofrank granted by the Emperor ofDelhi to the Oudh Nawabs. Itwill be sufficient to note here thenames of the rest of the Rulers ofOudh, and the buildings with whichthey adorned their capital. Noreigning dynasty of India evershowed such a series of vicious andincompetent chiefs as the last ofthese. Any one who may have anydoubts as to the condition of theprovince of Oudh under them hasonly to read the journals of SirWm. Sleeman to realise what theirrule meant—a rule continued un-changed, in spite of threats and warn-ings, for a period of thirty years.The buildings at Lucknow are nearlyall of a degraded and barbaroustype, and apart from the two tombsin the Kaisar Bagh and the JamaMasjid, not one of them possessesany real architectural merits, thoughthe large Hall of the great Imam-barah is a very grand room. Asaf-ud-daulah(i775-i797). Builtthe Daulat Khan Palace, MachhiBhawan Palace, the great Imam-barah and its mosque, the Rumi
Text Appearing After Image:
Lop^^itfliJ: Jq)iii &ianhaliiaifW A. Co ,Y,dJa^ LUCKNOW AND ENVIRONS

Note About Images