Tag Results: Nawabs
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Gulistan-e-Eram: Playground of a Nawab
From pleasure palace to a murder scene… Catch the exciting story of Lucknow’s Nawabi-era Gulistan-e-Eram, which has been given a fresh lease of life today
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Khairabad Imambara: A Tailor’s Legacy
If you sewed a new wardrobe for a Nawab, how much would you charge? The royal tailor of Awadh was so overpaid that he built three magnificent monuments in his hometown. Find out why this darzee was so special...
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Bhatkhande Music Institute: A Nawabi Fairy Tale
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah of Awadh was an artistic and whimsical ruler who loved being surrounded by ‘paris’ or ‘fairies’ as they pranced and performed for his royal highness. It is to this weakness that Lucknow’s world-famous Bhatkhande Music School owes its origins, housed as it is in the Nawab’s Parikhana
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The Story of Faizabad & its Begums
Catch the story of Faizabad and its powerful women. The first capital of the Nawabs of Awadh, it lost its status to Lucknow and now it has also lost its identity.