Welcome Back !To keep connected with uslogin with your personal info
Login
Sign-up
Login
Create Account
Submit
Enter OTP
Step 2
Prev
Home Nonfiction History The Forgotten Cities of Delhi
Enjoying reading this book?
The Forgotten Cities of Delhi
by Rana Safvi
4.1
4.1 out of 5
Creators
AuthorRana Safvi
PublisherHarperCollins
Synopsis"After the conquest of Delhi by Mohammad of Ghor, many dynasties ruled over it. Each of them either built a new capital or expanded the existing one, giving Delhi a living history of over 1,500 years. Today, these erstwhile cities remain as neighbourhoods with remarkable character – Siri, Jahanpanah, Tughlaqabad, Firozabad, Dinpanah, Shergarh and Hazrat Nizamuddin Basti — giving Delhi a unique soul incomparable to other state capitals.
In The Forgotten Cities of Delhi, Rana Safvi takes us on exploratory trails of the remains of these cities — monuments and tombs that have survived the onslaught of urbanization and apathy — and gives us a soulful introduction to their histories, blending her narrative with stirring Sufi couplets.
The result is an in-depth tour that’s full of awe and pathos, and makes us marvel at remnants from an era that was possibly the richest in Delhi’s archaeological history — an era of kings and courtiers, poets and saints, princesses and philosophers.
"