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Delhi poet Mir Taqi Mir called Lucknow ghazals mere descriptions of 'kissing and licking', not poetry.
On one occasion, when Asaf failed to pay sufficiently respectful attention to Mir while he re...
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3 days ago
‘Absurdly extravagant and ridiculously curious’: What the British thought of emperor Asaf-ud-Daula
When young Thomas Twining walked through Delhi in 1794, no one looked at him twice. Martin no longer spoke of returning to Europe himself, p...
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5 days ago