About the Book: Shahjahanabad: The Living City of Old Delhi, Volume I
The first volume of Shahjahanabad introduces the city as it was built, lived in
and ultimately transformed. Rana Safvi begins with the planning of the
magnificent Qila-eMubarak, or Lal Qila, and the city Shah Jahan built around it,
before walking you through the bustling quarters that gave Shahjahanabad its
pulse—the Jama Masjid and its environs, the lanes of Matia Mahal, Turkman
Darwaza, Chawri Bazar and Khari Baoli. This is the city as its residents knew
it: mercantile, sacred and deeply layered with everyday life—before the
catastrophic siege of 1857 changed it forever.
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