LUCKNOW THEN AND NOW , MARG PUBLICATION, HARDCOVER, 2003

This book focuses on less well-known aspects of Lucknow life and history – the present-day attractions of this city in transition, the bazaars with delectable foods to tempt the palate, the craftspeople who even today create delicate works of art; the architecture, from imambaras and karbalas to Victorian, Edwardian, and Modernist structures; educational institutions including the legacy of Claude Martin; and the charms of 18th- and 19th-century Faizabad and Lucknow preserved in paintings and photographs. The chapters present a lively range of subjects, some of which will be enlightening even for those who live in Lucknow.

Rosie Llewellyn-Jones has been writing about India in general and Lucknow in particular since the 1970s. She is an acknowledged authority on this city, which she regularly visits. She read Urdu at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, and is passionate about nawabi architecture. Since 1977 she has been Editor of Chowkidar, the journal of the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia.