About the Book: The Other Lucknow
There are few cities in the world that evoke the same nostalgia among its
inhabitants, visitors and historians as Lucknow. Perhaps, Delhi and Calcutta are
the only two cities in South Asia on which more has been written. In the case of
Lucknow, most of the published scholarship focused on 1857, historical monuments
and the Nawabi palace life and culture. This fascination with the Nawabi era is
largely responsible for the neglect of various other aspects of Lucknow such as
its social fabric (castes, sects, occupational groups and communities), the
subaltern and the marginalised sections of the society, problems and plight