A book on Delhi’s histories recounts how Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya’s shrine became a pilgrimage site

Nita Berry

· Nov 04, 2024 · 08:30 am

Fakhr-ul-Masajid, Bengali Club, Lothian Cemetery: The wonders of Delhi that lie beyond Kashmiri Gate

Swapna Liddle

· Nov 28, 2023 · 08:30 am

In the heart of Delhi, authorities take bulldozers to Muslim shrines with little warning

Zafar Aafaq

· Oct 01, 2023 · 06:30 am

‘Sawaneh-i Dehli’: An important book that shows the hold of colonialism on the minds of its subjects

Mohammad Asim Siddiqui

· Jul 08, 2023 · 01:30 pm

A new book revives works of a mapmaker who depicted in 1846 how Shahjahanabad had evolved

Swapna Liddle

· May 15, 2023 · 08:30 am

Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar II was the people’s emperor – courteous to his own and the British

Swapna Liddle

· Jan 30, 2023 · 08:30 am

Revisiting Rana Safvi’s Delhi trilogy shows how her books capture long-term history, not moments

Avik Chanda

· Jan 29, 2022 · 05:30 pm

This novel is based on the life of Sultan Razziat, the only woman emperor to have ruled from Delhi

Meena Arora Nayak

· Jan 19, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘Human nature doesn’t change’: Madhulika Liddle on the challenges of writing historical fiction

Abdullah Khan

· Nov 27, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Delhi in Historical Perspectives’: Three different pasts of the city in all its multicultural glory

Mohammad Asim Siddiqui

· Feb 20, 2021 · 08:30 am

Delhi has faced a shortage of burial space since the British Raj. Covid-19 is making it worse

Kelsey J Utne, Nursing Clio

· Oct 05, 2020 · 01:30 pm

RV Smith (1938-2020): We know so much about Delhi past and present because he discovered it for us

Sohail Hashmi

· May 01, 2020 · 03:30 pm

Rana Safvi’s history of Shahjahanabad is as much about its inhabitants as about its grand buildings

Akshaj Awasthi

· Jan 12, 2020 · 07:30 am

This mosque in Delhi’s Qutub complex set the template for India’s distinctive Islamic architecture

Giles Tillotson

· May 09, 2019 · 06:30 pm

How old is Lahore? The clues lie in a blend of historical fact and expedient legend

Haroon Khalid

· Dec 15, 2018 · 10:30 am

Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s 19th-century books on the pre-1857 monuments of Delhi are now in English

Sayyid Ahmad Khan Rana Safvi

· Aug 31, 2018 · 08:30 am

Inside the Delhi Golf Club is a wealth of monuments that is anything but par for the course

Rana Safvi

· Jun 14, 2018 · 08:30 am

Sunder Nursery gives Delhi a beautifully restored green space – and a template for heritage

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Mar 01, 2018 · 02:30 pm

Bad Muslim, good Muslim: Out with Aurangzeb, in with Dara Shikoh

Ipsita Chakravarty

· Feb 11, 2017 · 08:00 am