During the course of his research for writing articles and features the author identified a rich quality of decorative art present in many lesser known religious and secular buildings of the Nawabi period (1775-1856) in Lucknow. These structures are elaborately embellished with stucco and painted art work, mirror mosaic, glass paintings and exquisite calligraphy which is rare, and this is illustrated in this book with 123 coloured pictures (37 full page ...
