ABSTRACT
“Site of Memory” is the concluding chapter, which reiterates the book’s arguments explained and substantiated in the previous chapters. It further positions the history of nawabi architectural sites as mnemonic devices in the socio-sexual context of the Lucknow today to illustrate how the physical remnants of the nawabi rule—albeit having been erased—serve as sites of memory that direct the city’s pride marches and provide discrete cruising locations, thereby sustaining their relevance in their deviance and resistance to the normative. It reinforces the method of queer reading as an effective strategy to only write architectural history but also to reveal alternative histories.
