"In the 1970s, more than a century after the eclipse of the nawabi power at Lucknow, the city still occupied a special place in the life of India. During the latter part of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth, Lucknow and Oudh, the rich state of which it was capital, were the repository of Mughal culture after the erosion of Mughal power in Delhi. The East India Company recognized this and made the rulers of Oudh kings in 1814, while steadily undermining their sovereignty and revenues from 1765 onwards. The kings, and the city they embellished with palaces and mosques, gradually became bywords for decadent refinement in every department of life, whether it was dress, banquets, the hookah, pigeon-breeding, [[music and poetry, or love-making."
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Andrew Robinson, in "Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players: History Today Volume: 57 Issue: 7 2007"
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