Colonialism, Uprising and the Urban Transformation of NineteenthCentury Delhi

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 Which 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 CenturiesOld Mughal Traditions And The Incoming Colonial Ideal, Producing A TraditionalismModernity Binary. Employing The Built Environment Lens, The Book Traces The Architectural Trajectory Of Delhi As It Transitioned From The SeventeenthCentury Mughal Badshahi Shahar (Imperial City) First Into A Culturally Hybrid DilliDelhi Combine Of The PreUprising Era And Thereafter Into A Modern British City Following The Uprising. This Transition Is Presented Via Four Constructs That Draw On The TraditionalismModernity 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 DelhiS Four NineteenthCentury Lives In The Present While Making A Case For Their Acknowledgement As A Cultural Asset That Can Propel The CityS Urban Development Agenda. By Bringing Together The CityS 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.