The Present in Delhi's Pasts
The essays in this volume are about old monuments and villages in New Delhi. The author investigates both, the medieval history of these sites and...
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The essays in this volume are about old monuments and villages in New Delhi. The author investigates both, the medieval history of these sites and changes that have occured in these areas in more recent times. Relying upon Persian documentation and field-work, the author narrates the histories of these sites over the last millennium. It is a history of how, ever so gradually, the present has erased and rewritten the past of New Delhi.
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition and Introduction
Qutb and Modern Memory
A Medieval Reservoir and Modern Urban Planning: Local Society and the Hauz-i Rani
Making Sacred History, or Everyone his/her own Historian: The Pasts of the Village of Saidlajab
Naming
Reflections on the Past and Present of Two Sufi Dargahs in Delhi.
- Format:Paperback
- Pages:158 pages
- Publication:2010
- Publisher:Three Essays Collective
- Edition:Second Edition
- Language:eng
- ISBN10:
- ISBN13:9788188789443
- kindle Asin:B0B2LRM6P6
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