In 1851, Lord Dalhousie had described the kingdom of Awadh as 'a cherry which will drop into our mouths someday. It has long ...

This is a refreshing and engaging look at the kingdom of Awadh and the colonial powers that whirled around India in those ...

Most of the readers of The Telegraph were probably introduced to the cultural elegance of Awadh of the nineteenth century by Satyajit Ray’s Shatranj ke Khilari (1977). Adapted from a short story by ...