NEW DELHI, (IANS) – The chronicler of Delhi, Swapna Liddle, has come out with a new book that, in the words of William Dalrymple, “finally supersedes Percival Spear’s classic, ‘Twilight of the Mughals ...

The Phoolwalon ki Sair, suspended by the diktat of the colonial government in 1942, was revived after Independence. This painting pictures an imaginary gathering of various national leaders, some of ...

On a December afternoon in 1955, Soong Ching-ling – known better as the “Mother of Modern China” – stood beneath the high grand Victorian Edwardian-style arches of Chandni Chowk’s Town Hall, bathed in ...

In 1648, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan moved the capital of the empire from Agra up north along the banks of the Yamuna river. He named this new capital after himself, Shahjahanabad. The city had massive ...

DELHI TWP. – The cemeteries in a community can contain a great deal of history about the area. Whether it’s the history of the cemeteries themselves or the stories of the people and families interred ...

Delhi continues to be a frustration for lovers of architecture. With its eight centuries of grand mosques, emperors’ tombs and ruined forts, it has an architectural heritage to rival that of great ...

Much of what is known about the events at Turkman Gate during the Emergency comes from memoirs, inquiry records, journalistic ...

Delhi, India's largest city by population, history, and urban sprawl, is a complex metropolis layered with different eras. It ...

Delhi, the National Capital Territory, encompasses a vast historic region with multiple districts. New Delhi, a planned administrative district within Delhi, was designed by British architects as the ...

New Delhi: At Delhi’s Purana Qila this week, a five-minute anthem was blasted across the ramparts: “Ye Indraprastha hai” (This is Indraprastha). The event was organised with support from the Delhi ...