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DELHI: Historical Glimpses

By :- R.V. Smith

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Pages: x+130

Format: HB

ISBN-13: 978-81-7305-369-6

Place: New Delhi

Edition: 1st

Publisher: ARYAN BOOKS INTERNATIONAL

Size: 19cm x 25cm

Product Year: 2010

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Everyone coming to the beautiful historic city of Delhi is fascinated by its wealth of cultural heritage ? from the ordinary settlements to the imperial precincts. It is almost like a never-ending dialogue to know more about the cultural and architectural heritage of the city. The book gives the facets of a historical city, with its monuments and the legends connected with it. This is, however, not just another book on Delhi. It links the monuments, and many neighbourhoods of the city, with events in history. Most of the contents are related to the medieval period, though one will find scattered references to the dim past peeping out of the crust of the latter-day events. One has to give credit to the brilliance of the author, R.V. Smith, whose passion for several years has been to discover and collect stories and legends about the histories of Delhi?s many monuments, known and unknown. The book is thus a valuable addition to the literature on the Capital.

Preface v PRE-MOGHUL PERIOD 1. Forgotten Medieval ?New Delhi? 3 2. Tomb of a Genius ? Amir Khusrau 5 3. Lost Ambience of Hauz Khas 7 4. Glazed Mystery in Dome 10 5. Ship-Shaped Palace 12 6. Arabic Sultana?s Dream 14 7. Mosque of the Windows 16 8. Lies Here the Sultan 18 9. Bahlol Lodhi?s Tomb in Chirag Delhi 20 10. Fortress of the Barber 22 11. Bridging Fact and Fiction 24 12. Bhuli Bhatyari: The Fair Inn-keeper 26 13. Well Among Skyscrapers 29 MOGHUL ERA 14. Khan-e-Khanan?s Tomb 33 15. Here Rest the Moghuls 35 16. Moghul Treasure 37 17. A ?Babari? Mosque 40 18. Mysterious Forbidden Gate 42 19. Milestones 44 20. Ghalib?s Tomb: The Muse?s Bower 46 21. Oudh?s Link with Delhi 48 22. Robert Clive?s Pensioner 50 23. Lal Bangla of Lal Kanwar? 52 24. The Swings of Sawan 55 25. A Market Full of Spices 57 26. The Shoe-Sellers? Riot 59 27. Lane of Royal Cooks near Jama Masjid 61 28. Delhi?s ?Agra Bazar? 64 29. The Amazons of Delhi 66 FAITH & PIETY 30. Where Girls Pray: Mazar of Bibi Fatima 71 31. Matka Pir Hazrat Azmat Sheikh 74 32. The Legacy of a Pir 77 33. Drinking to the Deity 79 34. Site of Secret Ritual 81 35. Kalkaji Temple 83 36. Bela?s Samadhi 85 37. Gurdwara in the Palace of Raja Jai Singh 87 38. Rakabganj Gurdwara: When Nature Frowned 89 39. Abode of the Matas near Rouse Avenue 91 40. Mast Qalandar 93 41. Delhi?s Parsi Connexion 95 42. Still Surviving on Gossip 98 43. Grotto of Our Lady 100 44. Burning Day and Night 102 45. Sari for the Virgin 104 EUROPEAN LEGACY 46. Sikandar Sahib 109 47. Muztar and Azad 112 48. Armenian Connexion 115 49. The French Connexion 117 50. Good Old Halls of the Raj 120 Index 123

Ronald Vivian Smith, former News Editor of The Statesman, has been writing historical and other articles since 1958. Author of the Delhi that No-one Knows, Tales the Monuments Tell, Uncanny Tales and Jasmine Nights & The Taj, a romantic novel, he has also brought out three collections of his poems. Smith has also contributed special columns like Then & Now, Quaint Corner and Quaint Places to The Statesman and Down Memory Lane to The Hindu. He has also co-authored North India: The Christian Link with his father. Born in 1938, R.V. Smith?s latest interest is films on Delhi?s monuments and the walled city.

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