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Rupa Publications India LUCKNOW:FIRE OF GRACE by Amaresh Misra
LUCKNOW: FIRE OF GRACE is the first, fulllength, historical and contemparary narravtive, covering a time span of more than 250 years, from 1722 till the present, of the Indian subcontinent’s most fascinating city culture The book gives a mnemonic shock as it redefines the IndoPersia, Lucknowi way of beauty, politics, cuisine, fashion, architecture, money making, sensation, ada’, zaban’, honour and culture as authentic Indianess – in opposition to Hindutva, Jinnah’s two nation theory, and Nehruvian pseudo’anglicised secularism