Lucknow is known as a city of dreams and 160 years after the elegant court of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, there are almost as many different ways of interpreting it,...

During the course of his research for writing articles and features the author Saiyed Anwar Abbass identified a rich quality of decorative art present in many lesser known religious and...

The book Romancing with Chikankari gives a background with the early history the production of cotton and origin of weaving leading to the practice of Chikankari and subsequently evolution of...

Using rare archival material from the Alkazi Collection, together with supplementary visuals, these essays re-evaluate the official reading of the Uprising. Linked accounts negotiate Mutiny landscapes and architecture: the internal...