About the Book: Where Stones Speak: Historical Trails of Mehrauli
The oldest of Delhis seven cities, Mehrauli was once the thriving capital of
the Tomar and Chauhan dynasties, and the Dar ul Khilafat of the slave dynasty.
But today it lies forgotten, its congested lanes and crumbling ruins lost in a
mishmash of history and modernity, the living and the dead rubbing shoulders
with each other. Mehraulis old bylanes are dotted with historic structures—from
the rocky Qila Rai Pithaura to the dargah of Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki,
from Zafar Mahal, the last great monument built by the Mughals, to the holy
waters of the Hauz e