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The Forgotten Cities of Delhi

2018-05-30 History
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Release : 2018-05-30
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Book Synopsis The Forgotten Cities of Delhi by : Rana Safvi

Download or read book The Forgotten Cities of Delhi written by Rana Safvi. This book was released on 2018-05-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Forgotten Cities of Delhi, book two of the Where Stones Speak trilogy covers historical trails in Siri, Jahanpanah, Tughlaqabad, Firozabad, Din Panah, Shergarh and Hazrat Nizamuddin Basti.In her trademark style, Rana Safvi combines narrative history with Sufi couplets and takes you on a walk across the first city of Mehrauli and Firozabad. This period was a major step towards integration of two distinct cultures towards a culture called Indo-Islamic by many historians. In the latter half of this volume, she tells us stories from an area and an era that's perhaps the richest in Delhi's archaeological history - Shahjahanabad and Firozabad on one end, and Jahanpanah and Siri on the other - a stretch that's today dotted with tombs, dargahs and the ruins of the Purana Qila. This area also houses the famous Humayun's tomb and the center of Delhi's spiritual trail: the Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah.

The Seven Cities of Delhi

1906 Delhi (India)
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Release : 1906
Genre : Delhi (India)
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Book Synopsis The Seven Cities of Delhi by : Sir Gordon Risley Hearn

Download or read book The Seven Cities of Delhi written by Sir Gordon Risley Hearn. This book was released on 1906. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Where Stones Speak

2015-08-01 History
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Release : 2015-08-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Where Stones Speak by : Rana Safvi

Download or read book Where Stones Speak written by Rana Safvi. This book was released on 2015-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mehrauli is the oldest of Delhi's seven cities. Once the thriving capital of the Tomar and Chauhan dynasties and the Dar ul Khilafat of the slave dynasty, today it lies forgotten. Its congested lanes and crumbling ruins are lost in a mishmash of history and modernity, the living and the dead rubbing shoulders with each other. Blending stirring Urdu couplets with haunting visuals, author Rana Safvi walks us through the oldest of Delhis, describing the religious diversity of Mehrauli's monuments: from the rocky Qila Rai Pithaura to the dargah of Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki, from Zafar Mahal, the last great monument built by the Mughals, to the holy waters of the Hauz e Shamsi; each structure a living memory of an era dissolved in history. Embellished with stories and legends of a bygone era, and soaked in the sights and sounds of Sufi dargahs, mosques, temples, churches, gurudwaras and Buddhist monasteries, Where Stones Speak effortlessly reveals a little known, bewitching Mehrauli.

FORGOTTEN CITIES OF DELHI

2018
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Download or read book FORGOTTEN CITIES OF DELHI written by RANA. SAFVI. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shahjahanabad

2019-10-25 Architecture
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Release : 2019-10-25
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Shahjahanabad by : Rana Safvi

Download or read book Shahjahanabad written by Rana Safvi. This book was released on 2019-10-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is today the overcrowded, neglected city of Old Delhi was once the magnificent capital of the Mughal Empire. At its heart was the spectacular Qila-e-Mubarak, now known as the Red Fort. Commissioned by Emperor Shah Jahan in 1639, the beautiful city of Shahjahanabad was built around the spectacular Qila-e-Mubarak (Red Fort), on the banks of the Yamuna. Almost a decade later, in 1648, Shah Jahan entered through the river gate and celebrated the completion of this 'paradise on earth' filled with gardens, palaces, water bodies, mosques and temples. About two hundred years later, the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, left the fort by the same gate after the failed Mutiny against the British in 1857. Subsequently, both the fort and the city fared badly, as they faced the wrath of the British.The final instalment in Rana Safvi's informative, illustrated series of books on Delhi, Shahjahanabad: The Living City of Old Delhi describes the magnificence of the fort and the city through its buildings that are a living monument to the grandeur and strife of the past.

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