IPMAT Indore 2023 (VA) - The concept of the ‘Villa’ and other European ideas came to Lucknow with foreign soldiers, travellers and adventurers. For the Nawabs of Lucknow, architecture became the physical manifestation of their new status, and a way of proclaiming their alignment to the new power bloc. ___________. Villas, hence, provided an ideal substitute. Europeans sold to the Nawabs the idea of villas, based on designs in publications carried by them, and often aided by memory. The building chosen as the prototype for the famous Dilkusha Kothi was a country house in Northumberland. | PYQs + Solutions

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The Villa became the backdrop to both the private as well as the court life of the Nawabs

The Nawabs chose to live in Villas because they were easier to construct than palaces

The Nawabs of Lucknow fancied building palaces that resembled British ancestral homes

The Nawabs were attracted to European ideas in architecture because of their ‘foreignness’

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