Delhi Reborn

Delhi Reborn

Author: Rotem Geva

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2022-08-16

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 1503632121

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Delhi, one of the world's largest cities, has faced momentous challenges—mass migration, competing governing authorities, controversies over citizenship, and communal violence. To understand the contemporary plight of India's capital city, this book revisits one of the most dramatic episodes in its history, telling the story of how the city was remade by the twin events of partition and independence. Treating decolonization as a process that unfolded from the late 1930s into the mid-1950, Rotem Geva traces how India and Pakistan became increasingly territorialized in the imagination and practice of the city's residents, how violence and displacement were central to this process, and how tensions over belonging and citizenship lingered in the city and the nation. She also chronicles the struggle, after 1947, between the urge to democratize political life in the new republic and the authoritarian legacy of colonial rule, augmented by the imperative to maintain law and order in the face of the partition crisis. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Geva reveals the period from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s as a twilight time, combining features of imperial framework and independent republic. Geva places this liminality within the broader global context of the dissolution of multiethnic and multireligious empires into nation-states and argues for an understanding of state formation as a contest between various lines of power, charting the links between different levels of political struggle and mobilization during the churning early years of independence in Delhi.


The Delhi Sultanate

The Delhi Sultanate

Author: Peter Jackson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-10-16

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780521543293

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The book represents the first comprehensive history of the Delhi Sultanate from 1210-1400.


Delhi

Delhi

Author: Upinder Singh

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9788187358299

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Not many people know that the busy and bustling capital city of Delhi and its surroundings have a long past, going back thousands of years. Prehistoric stone tools have surfaced here and many ancient remains have been found, sometimes accidentally by farmers tilling their fields, and at other times by archaeologists carrying out systematic excavations. A mound one passes everyday or a narrow strip of stream tells a story of ancient times. Centuries of history coexist with metro stations and plush cars. The readings in this book give us glimpses of the lives of people who lived in the Delhi area over the centuries, and how these details have been pieced together by historians. It brings into focus the importance of the historian’s method and the sources of information found in ancient texts, archaeology and even legends and folklore, sometimes hanging on the thread of a slender historical fact. The editor of the volume, points to the urgency of further exploration and documentation to fill in the still all-too-meagre details of Delhi’s ancient history. However, she ends on a note of caution, bordering on alarm, when she points out that invaluable evidence of the city’s past is being extensively destroyed due to quarrying and the construction of new roads and buildings. Such activities are an integral part of the modernization of a living city but the balance between modernization and the preservation of ancient remains is indeed very fragile and needs to be maintained from an informed and realistic perspective. This collection of essays has been put together by a teacher for students of history, but will also be of enormous value to a large number of other interested readers. Upinder Singhis Professor of history at the University of Delhi.


Colossus

Colossus

Author: Sanjoy Chakravorty

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-02-03

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1108832245

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Colossus unpacks the intricacies and inequalities of economic, social and political life in India's capital, Delhi.


Democracy and Power

Democracy and Power

Author: Noam Chomsky

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Published: 2014-12-07

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1783740922

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Noam Chomsky visited India in 1996 and 2001 and spoke on a wide range of subjects, from democracy and corporate propaganda to the nature of the world order and the role of intellectuals in society. He captivated audiences with his lucid challenge of dominant political analyses, the engaging style of his talks, and his commitment to social equality as well as individual freedom. Chomsky’s early insights into the workings of power in the modern world remain timely and compelling. Published for the first time, this series of lectures also provides the reader with an invaluable introduction to the essential ideas of one of the leading thinkers of our time.


The Delhi that No-one Knows

The Delhi that No-one Knows

Author: Ronald Vivian Smith

Publisher: Orient Blackswan

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9788180280207

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This Is An Unconventional Introduction To The City Of Delhi. The Legends, Myths And Folklore Surrounding Its Monuments And Delightful Tales Give This Book Its Unique Appeal. A Foreword By Dr Narayani Gupta, The Book Is A Valuable Addition To The Literature On Delhi


Twilight in Delhi

Twilight in Delhi

Author: Ahmed Ali

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780811212670

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Set during the early years of this century this book recaptues the texture of family life in Delhi.


The Invasion of Delhi

The Invasion of Delhi

Author: Sanjay Yadav

Publisher: Worldwide Books

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9788188054008

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Who are the indigenous people of Delhi? How has migration impacted upon the city? What should be done to make the city a better place to live?


Delhi, Past and Present

Delhi, Past and Present

Author: H. C. Fanshawe

Publisher: Asian Educational Services

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9788120613188

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Inc. 7 + 1 Coloured Map, 50 plate illust.


Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals-Delhi Sultanat (1206-1526) - Part One

Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals-Delhi Sultanat (1206-1526) - Part One

Author: Satish Chandra

Publisher: Har-Anand Publications

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9788124110645

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The present work is a broad survey of political, social, economic and cultural developments in India between 1206 and 1526. These three and a quarter centuries, called the Delhi Sultanat, is sometimes seen as a dark age of war and rapine in which little developments took place.