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Author | : Stephen P. Blake |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2002-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521522991 |
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A study of a pre-modern Indian city (Old Delhi) as a sovereign city.
Author | : India. Town and Country Planning Organisation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : City planning |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Rana Safvi |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2019-10-25 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9353573483 |
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What is today the overcrowded, neglected city of Old Delhi was once the magnificent capital of the Mughal Empire. At its heart was the spectacular Qila-e-Mubarak, now known as the Red Fort. Commissioned by Emperor Shah Jahan in 1639, the beautiful city of Shahjahanabad was built around the spectacular Qila-e-Mubarak (Red Fort), on the banks of the Yamuna. Almost a decade later, in 1648, Shah Jahan entered through the river gate and celebrated the completion of this 'paradise on earth' filled with gardens, palaces, water bodies, mosques and temples. About two hundred years later, the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, left the fort by the same gate after the failed Mutiny against the British in 1857. Subsequently, both the fort and the city fared badly, as they faced the wrath of the British.The final instalment in Rana Safvi's informative, illustrated series of books on Delhi, Shahjahanabad: The Living City of Old Delhi describes the magnificence of the fort and the city through its buildings that are a living monument to the grandeur and strife of the past.
Author | : Anisha Shekhar Mukherji |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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This Richly-Illustrated Book Is An Architectural Biography Of A Fascinating Palace And City. Using The Extant Monuments Of The Red Fort, In Conjunction With Maps. Photographs, Court Chronicles, Travelogues, And Other Historical Material, The Author Takes Us On A Journey Through Time.
Author | : Stephen P. Blake |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521390453 |
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From 1400 to 1750, Asian capital cities were often ruled in such a way that they became symbols of the power and influence their emperors extended over their states at large. These 'sovereign cities' became the empire in miniature. Shahjahanabad is the first study of a pre-modern Indian city (Old Delhi) as a sovereign city. Stephen Blake explores the way in which the emperors' and nobles' palaces and mansions dominated the landscape; how cultural life revolved around that of the emperors and their families; and how the households of the great men also dominated the urban economy and controlled a large percentage of state revenue. This study thus illuminates how Asian capitals were not the great amorphous agglomerations described by Marx and Weber. Instead they were urban communities with their own distinctive style and character, dependent on a particular kind of state organization.
Author | : Jagmohan |
Publisher | : Delhi : Vikas Publishing House |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : City planning |
ISBN | : |
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Proposals for the redevelopment of a section of Delhi.
Author | : James D. Tracy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 732 |
Release | : 2000-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521652216 |
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The essays presented in this volume, first published in 2000, describe a phenomenon so widespread in human time and space that its importance is easily overlooked. City walls shaped the history of warfare; the mobilisation of manpower and resources needed to build them favoured some kinds of polities over others; and their massive strength, appropriately ornamented, created a visual language of authority. Previous collective volumes on the subject have dealt mainly with Europe, but the historians and art historians who collaborate here follow a comparative agenda. The millennial practice of wall building that branched out from the ancient Near East into India, Europe, and North Africa shows continuities and points of contact of which the makers of urban fortifications were scarcely aware; separate traditions in China, sub-Saharan Africa, and North America illustrate universal themes of defensive strategy and the symbolism of power, each time embedded in a distinctive local context.
Author | : Shama Mitra Chenoy |
Publisher | : Munshiram Manoharlal |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Maheshwar Dayal |
Publisher | : New Delhi : S. Chand |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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On the personalities, incidents, and cultural traditions of Mogul Delhi.
Author | : I. Mohan |
Publisher | : Mittal Publications |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : 9788170993193 |
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