No other city in the Indian subcontinent can lay claim to having so
many lives as Delhi. This book examines Delhi in the politically
and culturally dynamic nineteenth century that was marked midway by
the 1857 uprising against British colonial rule as a watershed
event. Following British occupation, Delhi became a receptacle for
encounters between the centuries old Mughal traditions and the
incoming colonial ideal, producing a traditionalism-modernity
binary. Employing the built environment lens, the book traces the
architectural trajectory of Delhi as it transitioned from the
seventeenth-century Mughal Badshahi Shahar (imperial city) first
into a culturally hybrid Dilli-Delhi combine of the pre-uprising
era and thereafter into a modern British city following the
uprising. This transition is presented via four constructs that
draw on the traditionalism-modernity binary of Mughal and British
Delhi and include Marhoom Dilli (Dead Delhi); Picturesque Delhi;
Baaghi Dilli (Insurgent Delhi) and Tamed Delhi. The book goes
beyond the nineteenth century to examine the vestiges of Delhi's
four nineteenth-century lives in the present, while making a case
for their acknowledgement as a cultural asset that can propel the
city's urban development agenda. By bringing together the city's
past and its present as well as addressing its future, the book can
count among its readers not just scholars but also those interested
in cities and their evolving landscapes.
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