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Rebellion was not a trait of Awadh, but when a popular king was unceremoniously dethroned, his brigade of loyalists raised a formidable coalition that battered and bled the British and scripted a glorious chapter in the 1857 Uprising.It’s March of 1856. A small group is accompanying a mild-mannered man who is bidding the final adieu…

Apart from being the city of rich heritage and mouth-watering delicacies, Lucknow is also the capital of India’s most politically charged state that spins legions of stories from the corridors of power. Rajiv Srivastava narrates a few of them…Civil War!It was 1974. Congress’s Swaroop Kumari Bakshi was facing a piquant situation in the state elections….

By- Ravi BhattLucknow was historically and culturally an important & prosperous place much before Asaf-ud-Daula made it his capital city in 1775.One thing is common between Lucknow’s admirers and critics – both wonder what Lucknow was like before nawabs arrived here and evolved not only as a highly sophisticated and refined culture of its kind…

Mariaon Cantonment: A colonial enclave in the heart of Awadh In 1807, a significant shift occurred in the colonial landscape of Lucknow when the British East India Company relocated its cantonment from the banks of the Gomti River to Madiaon (then Marion), a village nearly four miles north of the city (Residency). This move marked…