Author : Henry George Keene
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282655402
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (554 download)
Book Synopsis A Hand-Book for Visitors to Dehli, and Its Neighbourhood (Classic Reprint) by : Henry George Keene
Download or read book A Hand-Book for Visitors to Dehli, and Its Neighbourhood (Classic Reprint) written by Henry George Keene and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Hand-Book for Visitors to Dehli, and Its Neighbourhood Humayun towards the end of his troubled life, settled at Dehli, where he died (infra, p. And the city was immedi ately seized in the interest of Shah Adi], his Afghan rival. Oil Akbar' s overthrowing the latter, the seat of Government was once more removed to Agra which 13 therefore almost exclu sively a Moghul city, and which continued to be the capital of the empire till Shahjahan removed, for a time at least, to the modern city of Dehli, which he built and called by his own name, Shajahanfibfid. It thus comes to pass that Dehli - un derstauding by the term the parallelogram above referred to is more interesting than Agra, if less beautiful. The very monarch who last chose it as a 'capital dowered the forsaken rival with a treasure which, as it is unique in the world, is quite an agproached by anything at Dehli. But if the latter has no T it offers to the visitor interested in ethnolo in hist ry, and in architecture, a series of records that may float be compared to the stratified annals of geology. With harder work and less enjoyment than 1n Agra, the visitor to Dehli will nevertheless find his mind interested, and his knowledge of men and their works sensibly increased. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
