Charkha? Takli-Katli?
spinning Yarn making was a profession required skills, often passed on generation to generation, in clan. company painting documented such jobs
here to highlight women participation in Economy?
Painting from Lucknow, ca:1815-20

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cock figth once a popular sport at Oudh, Lucknow as shown in film Shataranj ke Khiladi
a painting by Zoffany's Cock Match

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The Oldest Monuments of Lucknow ..the Nadan Mahal tomb complex (16th century) where Sheikh Abdur Rahim and his descendants are buried

The Sheikh was the first governor of Awadh during the reign of Akbar

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Ranveer and Deepika at Sheroes Hangout Lucknow celebrating Deepika's birthday 4 🥰❤

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[VIDEO 5] Ranveer, Deepika and Team Chhapaak at Sheroes Hangout Lucknow celebrating Deepika's Birthday ❤ (tfs )

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🎥 Ranveer Singh with Deepika Padukone at press conference in Lucknow 😍❤️

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1904 : 'United We Stand Divided We Fall'
The Awadh Punch (or Oudh Punch) was an Urdu satirical weekly published from Lucknow, (1877-1936)
Founder & Editor : Sajjad Husain
Pandit Ratan Nath Sarshar & Akbar Allahabadi were notable contributors.
Courtesy

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I noticed none of the top 10 most polluted cities is in the west

Gurugram, India
Ghaziabad
Faridabad
Bhiwadi
Noida
Patna
Lucknow, India
Faisalabad, Pakistan
Hotan, China
Lahore, Pakistan

https://t.co/zy9nRIP0JZ





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The Tiger Hunt. Nawab Asaf ud-Daula with European guests. Lucknow, 1810. Simon Ray.

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23 October, Anand Narain Mulla Lakhnavi was born in 1901. He was an Urdu poet and judge of Allahabad High Court. Mulla sahab was MP (Lok Sabha) from Lucknow from 1967-1970. ab aur is ke sivā chāhte ho kyā 'mullā'
ye kam hai us ne tumheñ muskurā ke dekh liyā

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life of Durga Bhabhi was full of struggles.
interesting to note: in those days spread of movement of people. she was born, later lived in Lahore & Delhi, travelled to Kanpur, Lucknow to Calcutta. late she opened school in Lucknow, in old age died at Gaziabad, lived in anonymity

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Pic1
Copper engraving by H. Salt & C. Heath, published in George Viscount Valentia's Voyages & Travels, 1811
via: https://t.co/BCGRRuhUPX
Pic2
from north-west by c1814 (BL)
Pic3
Lord Hasting's elephant procession.SeetaRam1814

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Attack of the Mutineers on the Redan Battery at Lucknow July 30th, 1857.
back then it might have been an attack but it was rebel?
struggle for freedom
Indian rebelion

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(Two views, close-up)
Iskandar (Sikandar) meets the Archangel Israfil while Khizr prays at the Water of Life
Folio from a copy of Firdausi's Shahnama (completed 8 March 1010),
made for
Nawab Sa'adat 'Ali Khan (r. 1798-1814) of Awadh

c.1797-99
https://t.co/8G9LdcTalo

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is derived from the Persian words "sheer" meaning milk and "malidan" meaning to rub.
In a literal translation, sheermal means milk rubbed.
After being introduced to North India by the Persianate Mughal emperors.
It became a delicacy of Lucknow and Hyderabad.

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During reign that portable tandoors were introduced, and by 1700 the had reached the masses
It was a regular breakfast item in areas like and

It also appealed to taste buds and thrivede in culinary landscape

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Today's blogpost "Refashioning the Dilkusha Palace, Lucknow" is by Prof Swati Chattopadhyay, architectural historian specialising in modern architecture and urbanism, and the cultural landscape of British Colonialism.
https://t.co/aBv7xCPh7D

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Doing this again for 🙌🏽
I'm Javeria from Lucknow, India ✨ I love to do character art and some other stuff I like ~🌠

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🦋They say a blue butterfly symbolizes joy or bringing luck if seen 🦋
Titled, ‘ The Blue Morpho’
Painted in oils

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Dancers of Watercolours by Med Egron Lundgren 1858

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