This book examines the hundreds of secular and religious buildings, urban residences, and public monuments commissioned in the Indian city of Lucknow and region of Oudh between 1722 and 1856 by the fabulously rich Nawabs of Oudh and their Court, the English East Indian Company, and others. Based on extensive field work and archival research in the English, French, and Oriental languages, the text is lavishly illustrated with rare photographs and line drawings.