The Archival and Affective Lives of Five Monuments in Modern Delhi
by
Mrinalini Rajagopalan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Building Histories offers innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi—the Red Fort, Rasul Numa Dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, and the Qutb complex—tracing their modern lives from the nineteenth century into the twentieth.
Mrinalini Rajagopalan argues that the modern construction...