{"product_id":"2000-true-tales-of-old-lucknow-engaging-scoundrels-british-military-history-book","title":"2000 True Tales Of Old Lucknow Engaging Scoundrels British Military History Book","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Arial\" size=\"4\"\u003e\n \u003cb\u003e\n  2000 True Tales Of Old Lucknow Engaging Scoundrels British Military History Book\n \u003c\/b\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/font\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n \u003cfont face=\"Arial\" size=\"4\"\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n \u003c\/font\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n \u003cfont face=\"Arial\" size=\"4\" style=\"\"\u003e\n  \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n   \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n    \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n     \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n      \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n       \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n        \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n         \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n          \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n           \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n            \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n             \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n              \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n               \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n                \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n                 \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n                  \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n                   \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n                    \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n                     \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n                      \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n                       \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n                        \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n                         \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n                          \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n                           True Tales Of Old Lucknow Engaging Scoundrels\n                          \u003c\/div\u003e\n                          \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n                           By Rosie Llewellyn-Jones\n                          \u003c\/div\u003e\n                          \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n                           Published by Oxford University Press: New Delhi 2000 1st Edition\n                          \u003c\/div\u003e\n                          \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n                           \u003cbr\u003e\n                          \u003c\/div\u003e\n                          \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n                           \"Engaging Scoundrels: True Tales of Old Lucknow by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones is a richly textured exploration of the social underworld, forgotten personalities, and curious byways of Nawabi Lucknow, a city famed for its refinement, spectacle, and excess. Drawing on previously unused archival sources and family records, Llewellyn-Jones reconstructs a series of vivid historical episodes that move beyond the well-worn narratives of rulers and palaces to reveal barbers, entertainers, rogues, European interlopers, and the ordinary men and women who inhabited the city's margins. The book captures the paradox of Lucknow as both a place of extraordinary cultural sophistication and deep social inequality, set against the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.\n                           \u003cdiv\u003e\n                            \u003cbr\u003e\n                           \u003c\/div\u003e\n                           Published as this 2000 Oxford University Press first edition, the work is notable for its scholarly authority combined with an engaging, almost novelistic style, further enhanced by illustrations and evocative maps that anchor the stories in the physical landscape of the city. Llewellyn-Jones, a leading historian of North India, weaves micro-history into broader themes of colonial encounter, cultural misunderstanding, and historical memory, offering fresh insight into how Lucknow was lived, perceived, and later remembered. This book would particularly appeal to readers of Indian social history, scholars of colonial urban culture, and admirers of finely written narrative history rooted in archival discovery.\"\n                          \u003c\/div\u003e\n                          \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n                           \u003cbr\u003e\n                          \u003c\/div\u003e\n                          \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n                           \u003cb\u003e\n                            Condition:\n                           \u003c\/b\u003e\n                           Light wear to dustjacket. Binding is excellent with no loose pages. Small inscription in pencil present. Pages clean and well presented. A nice copy in very good condition overall. 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