1. Oldenberg, Veena, Talwar ,‘The Making of Colonial Lucknow’;pg.79-83.
2. Ibid.;pg.38-39.
3. Oldenberg, Veena, Talwar ,‘Lifestyle as Resistance: The Case of the Courtesans of Lucknow’;pg.79-83.
4. Ibid.;pg.93-94.
5. Pukhraj, Malka , 'Song Sung True: A Memoir’;pg.23-25.
6. Ibid.;pg.29.
7. Qureshi, RegulaBurkhardt, ‘Islamic Music in an Indian Environment: The Shia Majlis’, Ethnomusicology 1981, Vol. 25, no 1.;pg.117-119.
8. Ibid.;pg.123.
9. Santha, K.S. , ‘Begums of Awadh’;pg.97-101.
10. Ibid.;pg.115.
11. Sharar, Abdul Halim, ‘Lucknow: The Last Phase of an Oriental Culture’ [E.S. Harcourt and Fakir Hussain ];pg.204-206.
12. Taki, Roshan, ‘Lucknow keBhand Parampara’;pg.69-73.
13. Ibid.;pg.86.
14. Umar Khan , ‘SarodiyonkiGharane’, SwarnJayantSmarik Lucknow: Bhatkhande Hindustani SangeetMahavidyalaya, ;pg.205-209.
15. Ibid.;pg.276-279.
16. Ibid.;pg.54-57.
17. Hussain, MirzaJaffar,‘QadeemLakhnaukiTwaifen’, Aajkal, May, 1977. (Hindi).
18. Ibbetson, Denizil, H.A. Rose comp., ‘A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province’ ;pg.102-105.
19. Ibid.;pg.117-119.
20. Imam, Hakim Mohammad Karam, ‘Melody through the Centuries’ [GovindVidyarthi tr.], SangeetNatakAkademi Bulletin. 11-12 April 1959 .
21. Ibid.
22. Kolff, Dirk A. , ‘Naukar, Rajput and Sepoy: The Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market in Hindustan,1450-1850’;pg.126-129.
23. Ibid.;pg.134-139.
24. Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie, ‘ A Fatal Friendship: The Nawabs, the British, and the City of Lucknow’;pg109-114
25. Ibid.;pg.98-99.
26. Manuel, Peter La Marche , ‘Thumri in Historical Perspective’;pg. 101-113.
27. Marshall, P.J.,‘Economic and Political Expansion: the Case of Oudh’, Modern Asian Studies, 1975, Vol. 9, no 4.;pg.79-82.
28. Ibid;pg.89.
29. Mishra, Susheela, ‘Great Masters of Hindustani Music';pg.56-58.. Delhi: Hem Publishers, 1981
30. Mukhopadhyay, Dilip Kumar, ‘BharatiyaSangeeteyGharanarItihas’.
31. Muhury, Reba, ‘Thumri O Baijis’;pg.54-57.
32. Ibid.;pg.68-69.
33. Lalji, ‘Sultan al Hikayat (1853), MS no. 2149, Reza Library, Rampur,f.485.
34. Sharar, Abdul Halim, ‘Guzishta Lucknow’;pg.,301.
35. Ibid.;pg.485.
36. Ali Sa’adat ‘Ali Nasir’, ‘Tazkira-i-khushMarka-I Zeba; Tagore Library, Lucknow University, Lucknow.
37. Ibid.
38. Rajab Ali Beg ‘Surur’, ‘Fasana-i-Ibrat’,Lucknow,1957;pg.124.
39. Raja Hussain Ali Khan, ‘Ma’arif-ulNaghmat’, Urdu,Lucknow, 1924, pg.19.
40. Ibid.pg.32-37.
41. Khan Muhammad Karam Imam, ‘Ma’adan-ul-Musiqi’(1856);pg.43- 46.
42. Khan Muhammad Karam Imam, ‘Ma’adan-ul-Musiqi’(1856);pg.45-47.
43. Ibid;pp.49-51.
44. Wazid Ali Shah, ‘Bani’ ‘Najo’ (Urdu);pg.41-43.
45. TaqiMirza Muhammad, ‘Tarikh-I Aftab-I Awadh, (Urdu )Tagore Library, University of Lucknow, Lucknow.
46. Ibid.
47. Saraf Dr. Reena, ‘ Indian Music Today’;pg.65.
48. Ali Sa’adat ‘Ali Nasir’, ‘Tazkira-i-khushMarka-I Zeba, Tagore Library, Lucknow University, Lucknow.
49. Ahmad Khan, M. A. (2007). A Binding Legacy. Seminar 575: Between Cultures – a symposium on the changing face of Lucknow;pg.90.
50. Ibid.;pg.112-115.
51. Ali, M.; ‘Shahr e Nigaaran’- Seminar: Between Cultures – a symposium on the changing face of Lucknow; pg. 78.
52. Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-13.
53. Ibid.;pg.34.
54. Bayly, C.A. (1973). Patrons and Politics in Northern India. Modern Asian Studies 7(3):349-388.
55. Ibid.;pg.356.
56. Graff, V., Gupta, N. &Hasan, M. (2006). Introduction. In Graff, V. (ed.) Luckow: Memories of a City; pg. 31.
57. Ibid.; pg.56-59.
58. Khan, V. ‘Behind the Purdah: Between Cultures – a symposium on the changing face of Lucknow’; pg. 21-26.
59. Mehta, V.‘Shaam-e-Awadh: Writings on Lucknow’; pg. 230.
60. Ibid. pg.205-208.
61. Leppert, Richard and Susan McClary, eds. Music and Society: The Politics of Composition,Performance, and Reception;pg.35.
62. Ibid.;pg.37.
63. Leppert, Richard and Susan McClary,“Music, Domestic Life, and Cultural Chauvinism: Images of British Subjects at Home in India” ;pg.67.
64. Ibid.;pg.78.
65. Leppert, Richard and Susan McClary,InMusic and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance, andReception;pg.26.