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Ian Talbot, Tahir Kamran. Colonial Lahore: A History of the City and Beyond. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 256 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-064293-8.
Reviewed by Shalini Sharma (Keele University)
Published on H-Empire (April, 2018)
Commissioned by Charles V. Reed (Elizabeth City State University)
