10 HINDI BOOKS RELATING TO «शेरदरवाजा»
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शेरदरवाजा in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
शेरदरवाजा and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in Hindi literature.
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Historic Lucknow - Page 207
ON THE ROAD LEADING FROM Sa'adat AH Khan's tomb to the gardens crowned with the white marble statue of Queen Victoria stands an unpretentious gateway once known as the Sher Darwaza or Tiger Gateway. About a hundred years ...
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History of the 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles: 1858 to 1928 - Page 58
It will be seen, on looking at the map, that the Bala Hissar, dominating Kabul City from the south, was situated on comparatively high ground, which rose westwards to the Sher Darwaza Hill. This in turn was but the northernmost feature of a ...
Colonel H. E. Weekes,
2011
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Islamic Culture - Volume 75 - Page 88
How could a name Neill Darwaza gain currency so fast as to find general acceptance in place of an authentic and appropriate name Sher Darwaza which was more suitable for the entrance of royal Wildlife Park? A. Like Major Gubbins' Dooly ...
Marmaduke William Pickthall, Muhammad Asad,
2001
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Recollections of the Kabul Campaign: 1879 & 1880 - Page 152
The Bala Hissar fortress lies to the south-east of the city, and, though apparently forming part of it, this portion is completely distinct and separated by a shallow ditch, except where it joins the Sher Darwaza hill. Standing on higher ground, ...
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The Road to Kabul: The Second Afghan War, 1878-1881 - Page 153
Gough, however, was reasonably well-informed of the situation through a picket on the Sher Darwaza heights above the Bala Hissar. Seeing the Afghan tide rolling towards the Nanachi gorge, he had telegraphed for the Guides to march at top ...
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Lucknow monuments - Page 47
The Sher Darwaza South of the 'Globe Park' of Lucknow is a neglected saffron coloured gate supporting figures of two lions. The gate is about one and a half century old and is known as the Sher Darwaza. During pre-'Mutiny' times this portal ...
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The A to Z of Afghan Wars, Revolutions and Insurgencies - Page 185
Kabul became the capital of a province of the Moghul Empire, whose founder, Babur Shah, is buried on the eastem slope of the Sher Darwaza Mountain. In 1775—1776 Timur Shah made Kabul his capital, and Afghan amirs ruled henceforth ...
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State and Tribe in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan: The ... - Page 23
Located at an elevation of 6,500 feet, Kabul city is 'seated at the western extremity of a spacious plain, in an angle formed by the approach of two inferior hill ridges' (Koh—i Asmai and Koh-i Sher Darwaza). Because of its proximity to the ...
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To the abdication of Yakub Khan - Page 213
Baker, being told that the heights which the Afghans were holding seemed but a “prolongation " of the Sher Darwaza, left Beni Hissar in a westerly direction, so as to pass along the heights behind the Bala Hissar, and directly on to the Sher ...
James Maclaren Cobban,
1901
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The Life and Deeds of Earl Roberts, V.C., K.G., K.P., ... - Page 213
Baker, being told that the heights which the Afghans were holding seemed but a "prolongation" of the Sher Darwaza, left Beni Hissar in a westerly direction, so as to pass along the heights behind the Bala Hissar, and directly on to the Sher ...
James Maclaren Cobban,
1901