Ghazal, the immortal Begum Akhtar, nestled in a narrow galli flanked by countless lower-middle-class apartment blocks in ...

written by Lucknow-based historian Nusrat Naheed. About Hazrat Mahal, she writes that “she was born in a poor family in Faizabad”. Her father Umber was the slave to a nawab, called Gulam ...

Shahida Chachi is from Lucknow, the city of nawabs, famous for its elaborate ... The feast served at a family wedding, a new eatery or the fare served at the Numaish (an annual Aligarh fair ...

The family lived an extremely secluded life ... stitched together with interviews of over 50 people including nawabs of Lucknow, Jafar Mir Abdullah and Ibrahim Ali Khan, Sabia Rashid, a former ...

The monument was home to princess Sakina Raza, and prince Ali Raza (Cyrus), who was the last surviving member of the royal family of Awadh.

One of the Nawab family members was a lover of bees and I saw a picture of him with numerous bees on his beard. The first life size portrait was of the first Nawab of Lucknow, Saadat khan who ruled ...

Katie: In 1757, he led British forces against the Nawab of Bengal ... with major battles in Delhi, Kanpur, and Lucknow. Katie: After 18 months of fighting, Britain defeated the sepoys.

Ishtiyaque Qureshi's son showcasing his culinary skills So, this is when the Nawabs settled down in Lucknow, basically ... otherwise he was already and his family was already in the same line, ...

Food was in Imtiaz Qureshi’s blood. Born on 2 February 1931 in Lucknow, he came from a family of cooks who had served the nawabs. A burly young man with a passion for wrestling, he was always an ...