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Delhi Red Fort to Raisina
This book traces the journey of Shahjahans new capital of the Mughal Empire, Shahjahanabad built on the banks of river Yamuna in 1638 to New Delhi; the new capital of British ruled India. Though there seems no affinity between the garden city of New Delhi and the seventeenth century Old Delhi yet when one looks deeper, Shahjahans city and the British capital were both imperial in scale and designed to awe. With four essays on different aspects of Delhis history this is a lively portrait of the city and its culture and people, as well as a unique chronicle of the transition of the old world charm of Shahjahanabad to a modern city with a new seat of power built on the Raisina Hill.
