City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi Book

Indraprastha is the Hindu name for the first, mythical Delhi. In this book the author peels back the successive encrusting layers of Delhi's history, using both the material and the human remains of each period as a touchstone with the present. With each of the six cities of Delhi being revealed in respective chapters, the climax, the final chapter, tells of the mythical first city, whose beginnings, told in the Mahamarata, form the principle Hindu creation myth. This book is a portrait of Delhi, the mother of all cities. Its dry plains are the fertile meeting point of all the great cultures of South Asia, the place where Rajput, Persian, Afghan and British influences all intermingle. By the author of "In Xanadu".Read More

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  • 000215725X
  • 9780002157254
  • William Dalrymple
  • 6 September 1993
  • HarperCollins
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 320
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