Direction: Choose the sentence that most logically completes the paragraph.
The concept of the 'Villa' came to Lucknow with foreign soldiers, travellers and adventurers. For the Nawabs of Lucknow, architecture became the physical manifestation of their new status. _____________________. Villas, hence, provided an ideal substitute. Europe sold to the Nawabs the idea of villas, based on designs and memory. The building chosen as the prototype for Dilkusha Kothi was a country house in Northumberland.
- AThe Villa became the backdrop to both the private as well as the court life of the Nawabs
- BThe Nawabs chose to live in Villas because they were easier to construct than palaces
- CThe Nawabs were attracted to European ideas in architecture because of their 'foreignness'
- DThe Nawabs of Lucknow fancied building palaces that resembled British ancestral homes