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Author : Sir Gordon Risley Hearn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Seven Cities of Delhi written by Sir Gordon Risley Hearn and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Urmila Varma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Delhi, a Tale of Seven Cities written by Urmila Varma and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rana Safvi
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9352777522
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (527 download)
Download or read book The Forgotten Cities of Delhi written by Rana Safvi and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 377 pages. 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.
Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408806886
Total Pages : 819 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Last Mughal written by William Dalrymple and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 819 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER MEMORIAL PRIZE | LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 'Indispensable reading on both India and the Empire' Daily Telegraph 'Brims with life, colour and complexity . . . outstanding' Evening Standard 'A compulsively readable masterpiece' Brian Urquhart, The New York Review of Books A stunning and bloody history of nineteenth-century India and the reign of the Last Mughal. In May 1857 India's flourishing capital became the centre of the bloodiest rebellion the British Empire had ever faced. Once a city of cultural brilliance and learning, Delhi was reduced to a battered, empty ruin, and its ruler – Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last of the Great Mughals – was thrown into exile. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj's Stalingrad: a fight to the death between two powers, neither of whom could retreat. The Last Mughal tells the story of the doomed Mughal capital, its tragic destruction, and the individuals caught up in one of the most terrible upheavals in history, as an army mutiny was transformed into the largest anti-colonial uprising to take place anywhere in the world in the entire course of the nineteenth century.
Author : Sanjeev Sanyal
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184756712
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Land of seven rivers written by Sanjeev Sanyal and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DID THE GREAT FLOOD OF INDIAN LEGEND ACTUALLY HAPPEN? WHY DID THE BUDDHA WALK TO SARNATH TO GIVE HIS FIRST SERMON? HOW DID THE EUROPEANS MAP INDIA? The history of any country begins with its geography. With sparkling wit and intelligence, Sanjeev Sanyal sets off to explore India and look at how the country’s history was shaped by, among other things, its rivers, mountains and cities. Traversing remote mountain passes, visiting ancient archaeological sites, crossing rivers in shaky boats and immersing himself in old records and manuscripts, he considers questions about Indian history that we rarely ask: Why do Indians call their country Bharat? How did the British build the railways across the subcontinent? Why was the world’s highest mountain named after George Everest? Moving from the geological beginnings of the subcontinent to present-day Gurgaon, Land of the Seven Rivers is riveting, wry and full of surprises. It is the most entertaining history of India you will ever read.
Author : Rana Safvi
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9351772551
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Where Stones Speak written by Rana Safvi and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 256 pages. 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.
Author : Saif Mahmood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789388326049
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Beloved Delhi written by Saif Mahmood and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A riveting resurrection of the city of poets, the city of history, Saif Mahmood's learned and evocative book takes us to the heart of Delhi's romance with Urdu verse and aesthetics.'--Namita Gokhale Urdu poetry rules the cultural and emotional landscape of India--especially northern India and much of the Deccan--and of Pakistan. And it was in the great, ancient city of Delhi that Urdu grew to become one of the world's most beautiful languages. Through the 18th and 19th centuries, while the Mughal Empire was in decline, Delhi became the capital of a parallel kingdom--the kingdom of Urdu poetry--producing some of the greatest, most popular poets of all time. They wrote about the pleasure and pain of love, about the splendour of God and the villainy of preachers, about the seductions of wine, and about Delhi, their beloved home. This treasure of a book documents the life and work of the finest classical Urdu poets: Sauda, Dard, Mir, Ghalib, Momin, Zafar, Zauq and Daagh. Through their biographies and poetry--including their best-known ghazals--it also paints a compelling portrait of Mughal Delhi. This is a book for anyone who has ever been touched by Urdu or Delhi, by poetry or romance.
Author : Sammik C Basuu
Publisher : e-bookowo
ISBN 13 : 8395789343
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Castles Legends. 7 Cities of Delhi written by Sammik C Basuu and published by e-bookowo. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many versions of the different cities of Delhi. Some say there were 7 cities, some say 9, some historians also claim that there were 12 or 14 different cities in total, starting from the mythological times to this day. For our convenience, we have selected the most famous version of the seven cities of Delhi and merged the overlapping locations of different cities in one single chapter, like that of the legendary, pre-historic city of Indraprastha and the Purana Qila in the medieval city of Dinpanah, which share the same location and therefore have been clubbed together. This book will drive you through legends of all of them. This e-book was created as part of the Castles.today project that seeks to promote history and tourism by presenting high-quality content related to castles and forts scattered around the globe. We offer you a brief escape from the daily routine, allowing you to travel back in time to the era of princesses and knights strolling through chambers and castle walls.
Author : Herbert Charles Fanshawe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Delhi Past and Present written by Herbert Charles Fanshawe and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diana L Eck
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0385531915
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book India written by Diana L Eck and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In India: A Sacred Geography, renowned Harvard scholar Diana Eck offers an extraordinary spiritual journey through the pilgrimage places of the world's most religiously vibrant culture and reveals that it is, in fact, through these sacred pilgrimages that India’s very sense of nation has emerged. No matter where one goes in India, one will find a landscape in which mountains, rivers, forests, and villages are elaborately linked to the stories of the gods and heroes of Indian culture. Every place in this vast landscape has its story, and conversely, every story of Hindu myth and legend has its place. Likewise, these places are inextricably tied to one another—not simply in the past, but in the present—through the local, regional, and transregional practices of pilgrimage. India: A Sacred Geography tells the story of the pilgrim’s India. In these pages, Diana Eck takes the reader on an extraordinary spiritual journey through the living landscape of this fascinating country –its mountains, rivers, and seacoasts, its ancient and powerful temples and shrines. Seeking to fully understand the sacred places of pilgrimage from the ground up, with their stories, connections and layers of meaning, she acutely examines Hindu religious ideas and narratives and shows how they have been deeply inscribed in the land itself. Ultimately, Eck shows us that from these networks of pilgrimage places, India’s very sense of region and nation has emerged. This is the astonishing and fascinating picture of a land linked for centuries not by the power of kings and governments, but by the footsteps of pilgrims. India: A Sacred Geography offers a unique perspective on India, both as a complex religious culture and as a nation. Based on her extensive knowledge and her many decades of wide-ranging travel and research, Eck's piercing insights and a sweeping grasp of history ensure that this work will be in demand for many years to come.
Author : Khushwant Singh
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780140126198
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Delhi written by Khushwant Singh and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 1990 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travelling through time, space and history to 'discover' his beloved city, the narrator of this novel meets a myriad of people - poets and princes, saints and sultans, temptresses and traitors, emperors and eunuchs - who have shaped and endowed Delhi with its very mystique.
Author : Davoudi, Simin
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447323378
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Justice and Fairness in the City written by Davoudi, Simin and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than half the world’s population now living in urban areas, ‘fairness’ and ‘justice’ within the city are key concepts in contemporary political debate. This book examines the theory and practice of justice in and of the city through a multi-disciplinary collaboration, which draws on a wide range of expertise. By bringing diverse disciplinary and theoretical perspectives into conversation with each other to explore the (in) justices in urban environment, education, mobility and participation the book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of justice and fairness in and of the city. It will be a valuable resource for academic researchers and students across a range of disciplines including urban and environmental studies, geography, planning, education, ethics and politics.
Author : Khushwant Singh
Publisher : Rupa Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788129148469
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (484 download)
Download or read book On India written by Khushwant Singh and published by Rupa Publications. This book was released on 2017 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Punjab's Hadali village (now in Pakistan) in 1915, Khushwant Singh was among India's best-known and most widely read authors and journalists.
Author : K.A. Nizami
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190991909
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Delhi in Historical Perspectives written by K.A. Nizami and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-22 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating and chequered history of Delhi through the centuries has been a popular subject among authors. Yet, only a few other than K.A. Nizami record in rich detail the cultural, social, economic, and spiritual fabric of the city—the ‘gorgeous blaze of glory’ that was Delhi—between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries. He presents his accounts of the periods of the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughals, and the poet Ghalib through the analyses of wide-ranging sources: original literary, travel, biographical, hagiographical, and administrative accounts in Persian, Hindavi, and Urdu. This book is a compilation of the historian’s lectures delivered at the University of Delhi and the Ghalib Institute in Delhi, first published in Urdu in 1972. The author’s conversational style, replete with literary allusions, makes this an essential read for lovers and admirers of this beguiling city and its historic Sufi culture. Ather Farouqui’s English translation captures the true essence of Nizami’s work and now makes it easily available to a wider readership.
Author : Satyakam Jethwani
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 9781647336691
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Salaam Delhi: Rediscovering 200 Monuments in 25 Heritage Walks written by Satyakam Jethwani and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SALAAM DELHI is a colourful heritage guide to the historical seven cities of Delhi. The author has curated 25 walks through the city's memory lanes to encapsulate its long history, enviable heritage and the priceless beauty of its monuments. The monuments are aesthetically clicked and present testimony to the rich cultural heritage of Delhi. The book is a humble attempt by the author to spread awareness about preserving, conserving and protecting our heritage.
Author : Lucy Peck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Delhi, a Thousand Years of Building written by Lucy Peck and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to Delhi's architectural heritage that includes photographs, line drawings, detailed maps and anecdotes from the city's past.
Author : Véronique Dupont
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Delhi written by Véronique Dupont and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing Together The Work Of Indian And European Academics And Activists Working In The Domains Of Anthropology, Demography, Geography, Architecture, Photography, History And Political Science. The Book Would Be Of Interest To Anyone Keen To Move Beyond Stereotyped Representations Of India`S Capital State.
