Description
This book deploys evidence scattered in a variety of primary and secondary sources, especially in Persian
and Urdu, to study visuals and artefacts as well as the performance traditions and craft techniques which are
derived from the Nawâbi period. It comments on the Nawâb’s creation of a Shi’a heritage in northern India,
which had strong associations with other Indian cultural traditions. Highlighting the literary milieu of the
period, and developments in the realm of music, painting, architecture, and the industrial arts, this book also
explores how some of the arts and crafts assumed considerable European colour due to interaction between
Europeans and the Awadh elite, and demonstrates how the ethos of the syncretic Indo-Persian culture—the
renowned ganga-jamunî tahzîb that represented Persian aesthetics and Indian cultural values—remained
intact.