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City of Djinns: A Year of Delhi

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City of Djinns: A Year of Delhi - Dalrymple, William
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Indraprastha is the Hindu name for the first, mythical Delhi. In this book the author peels back the successive encrusting layers of Delhi's history, using both the material and the human remains of each period as a touchstone with the present. With each of the six cities of Delhi being revealed in respective chapters, the climax, the final chapter, tells of the mythical first city, whose beginnings, told in the Mahamarata, form the principle Hindu creation myth.

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City of Djinns: A Year of Delhi 1994, Indus, New Delhi, India

ISBN-13: 9780002157254

Hardcover