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There are several other courts to remind us of former times, but the one in which old culture and social life reached its zenith was this court of Oudh which was established not so long ago and, after making astonishing advances, came to an end in a very short time.
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Chapter 11 describes in clear terms the evolution of prose from the ornate and formalised style into that of simplicity and clarity. About his own prose, Sharar writes that he emulated the style of
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