‘My fascination with horror predates my fascination with history’: Eric Chopra, author of ‘Ghosted’

Chintan Girish Modi

· May 10, 2026 · 05:30 pm

How did Delhi’s Sultanate and Mughal architecture become ‘modern’ monuments?

Aditi Chandra

· Apr 13, 2026 · 08:30 am

‘The most beautiful sarae in Hindustan’: First impressions of princess Jahanara’s Begum ki Serai

Anoushka Jain

· Jan 08, 2026 · 08:30 am

‘The Golden Calm’: Traces of an empire, MM Kaye, the Metcalfes, and a city before the storm

Swati Daftuar

· Nov 29, 2025 · 05:30 pm

A new book recounts myths and legends about Jamali-Kamali and other ‘haunted’ monuments in Delhi

Eric Chopra

· Nov 25, 2025 · 08:30 am

‘Sheher Mein Gaon’: A compelling articulation of the many tangled issues of Delhi’s ‘urban villages’

Madhulika Liddle

· Nov 09, 2025 · 07:30 am

What Syed Ahmad Khan’s 1847 architectural history of Delhi says about contemporary India

Fahad Zuberi

· Oct 30, 2025 · 11:30 am

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