Invisible City
The Hidden Monuments of Delhi
Paper Type: Art Paper (Matt) | Size: 229 x 229mm
All colour; 293 photographs and 1 map; 342 pages; Hardback
ISBN-10: 8189738771 | ISBN-13: 978-81-89738-77-8
995 | 30 | 16.99
There is no denying that Delhi is unique. What
sets it apart is the multitude of historic ruins that are a part of the city’s
landscape. Neophyte New Delhi has been quick to discard most of them on the
rubbish heap of history, choosing to validate a bare minimum with a name, an
identity and a place of visibility. Where it was possible to make the law look
the other way, many of these monuments were razed to the ground to make way for
development. Regarded as no more than inconvenient piles of rock, many have
been pulled down, built upon, built around. Invisible City: The Hidden
Monuments of Delhi explores this other Delhi—the little-known,
seldom-visited, largely unheard of Delhi, the Delhi that has been rendered
almost invisible.
Rakhshanda Jalil
Author
Rakhshanda
Jalil writes
on issues of literature, culture and heritage. She has published over 15 books,
which includes two edited collections of short stories, Urdu Stories and a
selection by Pakistani women called Neither Night Nor Day; two co-authored
books with Mushirul Hasan, Partners in Freedom: Jamia Millia
Islamia (Niyogi Books, 2006). She was co-editor of Third
Frame, a journal devoted to literature, culture and society brought out by
the Cambridge University Press. She has published six works of
translations; the latest being Naked Voices & Other Stories by
Saadat Hasan Manto; Panchlight and Other Stories by Hindi
writer Phanishwarnath Renu. She runs an organization called Hindustani
Awaz, devoted to the popularization of Hindi-Urdu literature and culture.
Khushwant Singh
Foreword
Khushwant
Singh (born Khushal Singh, 15
August 1915 – 20 March 2014) was an Indian author, lawyer, diplomat, journalist
and politician. His experience in the 1947 Partition of India inspired him to
write Train to Pakistan in 1956 (made
into film in 1998), which became his most well-known novel.