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Today on 17 Nov 1857. Sir James Outram & Sir Henry Havelock, join hands and marched ahead to help Gen. Colin Campbell during the Second relief of Lucknow.
A tablet built to commemorate this event as it happened at the exact same point.
Current loc: Behind KDSingh stadium.

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2022-11-17

scene changes as man goes to other lady's house? who is independent?
man (the lover) squatting to touch feet of a courtesan, by Nibran Chandra Ghosh, Kalighat Painting, Kolkata, ca. 1900
same happened all over, even in Lucknow. petty so called nawabs

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2022-06-05

The Last Voyage 2.2.1887. "Arrived at Cawnpore at 2am. Drove at 6.45 through the streets to the Memorial Gardens...Proceeded by train to Lucknow." R.T. Pritchett's drawing "Meari, The Last Of The Thugs" [Thuggee].

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2022-02-03

Good morning to all wonderful people in Lucknow. Sunny skies. All safe & well here 🙏

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2021-06-15

‘khuda e Sukhan’ Mir Taqi Mir, one of the great Urdu poets, in one of the only portraits of him in old age to have survived. Fleeing Delhi after the chas of 1739, he never reconciled himself to the culture of Lucknow.
Lucknow, 1800, Relia collection

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2020-09-09

OTD Imam Baksh Nasikh died in 1838 in Lucknow.
He was born in 1775 at Faizabad. During his childhood, he came to Lucknow & learned Persian & Arabic. He was also fond of wrestling. He was inspired by Mir Taqi Mir & wanted to became his disciple but Mir refused!
📸 urdushayari

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2020-08-16

DRM Office, Hazrat Ganj, Lucknow.
This was the first railway office in Then it was known as and RohilKhand railway office. After independence, it was renamed as Northern Railways Division office. Last year, this front part was demolished of a Metro Station!

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2020-03-08

Dancers of Watercolours by Med Egron Lundgren 1858

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2018-03-08