[PDF] The Walls Of Delhi eBook

Author : Uday Prakash
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 18,50 MB
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1609805291

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A street sweeper discovers a cache of black market money and escapes to see the Taj Mahal with his underage mistress; an Untouchable races to reclaim his life that’s been stolen by an upper-caste identity thief; a slum baby’s head gets bigger and bigger as he gets smarter and smarter, while his family tries to find a cure. One of India’s most original and audacious writers, Uday Prakash, weaves three tales of living and surviving in today’s globalized India. In his stories, Prakash portrays realities about caste and class with an authenticity absent in most English-language fiction about South Asia. Sharply political but free of heavy handedness.

Author : Hirsh Sawhney
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 23,58 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 193335478X

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Presents a collection of crime and noir stories set in Delhi, India.

Author : Mrinalini Rajagopalan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 022633189X

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Building Histories offers innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi—the Red Fort, Rasul Numa Dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, and the Qutb complex—tracing their modern lives from the nineteenth century into the twentieth. Mrinalini Rajagopalan argues that the modern construction of the history of these monuments entailed the careful selection, manipulation, and regulation of the past by both the colonial and later postcolonial states. Although framed as objective “archival” truths, these histories were meant to erase or marginalize the powerful and persistent affective appropriations of the monuments by groups who often existed outside the center of power. By analyzing these archival and affective histories together, Rajagopalan works to redefine the historic monument—far from a symbol of a specific past, the monument is shown in Building Histories to be a culturally mutable object with multiple stories to tell.

Author : James D. Tracy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 23,28 MB
Release : 2000-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521652216

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The essays presented in this volume, first published in 2000, describe a phenomenon so widespread in human time and space that its importance is easily overlooked. City walls shaped the history of warfare; the mobilisation of manpower and resources needed to build them favoured some kinds of polities over others; and their massive strength, appropriately ornamented, created a visual language of authority. Previous collective volumes on the subject have dealt mainly with Europe, but the historians and art historians who collaborate here follow a comparative agenda. The millennial practice of wall building that branched out from the ancient Near East into India, Europe, and North Africa shows continuities and points of contact of which the makers of urban fortifications were scarcely aware; separate traditions in China, sub-Saharan Africa, and North America illustrate universal themes of defensive strategy and the symbolism of power, each time embedded in a distinctive local context.

Author : Ramesh Chandra Dhussa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 43,29 MB
Release : 2023-06-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 3031285859

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The main objective of this book is to analyze prominent literary images of Delhi in post-independence India. The author has probed into a number of eminent writings in Hindi, English and other languages. The author's methodology, a humanistic and phenomenological approach, allows exploration of experiential dimension of writers’ and their characters in various genres of literature. An inquiry into perceptions and imagination in literature enriches the understanding of place, space, time, and seasons, the concerns central to geography. The Perceptions of the metropolis of Delhi interestingly vary between authors and their characters. The images of Delhi in plethora of literary works show a wide spectrum of colors. The images evoke feelings of reverence, love, adoration, dislike, indifference or neutrality. Experiences vary from places of beauty and grandeur to utterly ugly environments. Natives express different views and attitudes toward the city of Delhi from those of expatriate writers.

Author : Kaushik Roy
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 34,99 MB
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1441177302

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New interpretations of the Indian army of the Raj.

Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 819 pages
File Size : 21,22 MB
Release : 2009-08-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 1408806886

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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 : Vanessa Betts
Publisher : Footprint Travel Guides
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1909268402

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This region takes in the contrasts of India. From the brash and chaotic Delhi, through Varanasi, India’s holiest city, to the cultural hub that is Kolkata, these cities will truly provide an experience of India. Footprint Focus provides invaluable information on transport, accommodation, eating and entertainment to ensure that your trip includes the best of these dynamic destinations. • Essentials section with useful advice on getting to Delhi, Varanasi and Kolkata. • Comprehensive, up-to-date listings of where to eat, sleep and play. • Includes information on tour operators and activities, from tightly packed markets to visiting the holy riverbank. • Detailed maps for Delhi, Kolkata and other key destinations. • Slim enough to fit in your pocket. With detailed information on all the main sights, plus many lesser-known attractions, Footprint Focus Delhi to Kolkata provides concise and comprehensive coverage of one of India’s most fascinating regions. The content of Footprint Focus Delhi to Kolkata guide has been extracted from Footprint's India Handbook.