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In Search of Delhi Jitender Gill

In Search of Delhi By Jitender Gill

In Search of Delhi by Jitender Gill


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Dilli ki Khoj is an anecdotal history of Delhi and its monuments by Sh. Brij Kishan Chandiwala. This English translation of Dilli ki Khoj revives an out-of-print classic and make it more accessible to a global audience.

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In Search of Delhi: A Translation of Brij Kishan Chandiwala's Dilli ki Khoj by Jitender Gill

Dilli ki Khoj is an anecdotal history of Delhi and its monuments by Shri Brij Kishan Chandiwala, an eminent Gandhian. The volume was published in Hindi by the Publications Division of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, in 1964 and has been out of print for many years. This English translation of Dilli ki Khoj revives an out-of-print classic and makes it more accessible to a global audience. The book covers Delhis long history, details on monuments built from the ancient times till the early 1960s and a detailed recording of all of Gandhijis visits to Delhi. It also traces significant epochs in Indian history and the rise of a national identity.

The volume spans the genres of journalism, architecture, history, mythology and area studies and will be of special interest to historiographers, especially in the contemporary context.

About Jitender Gill

Jitender Gill is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Janki Devi Memorial College (JDMC), University of Delhi, India. She was awarded a doctoral degree in English literature by the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. She is a recipient of a Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Lecturer Fellowship in 201011. Her primary areas of research are nineteenth-century British literature and culture. She has written articles and presented papers at various conferences on nineteenth-century British literature as well as popular culture. She has also edited Rediscovering the City in Times of Covid (2021) and has co-edited Rediscovering Delhi (2020). As the Director of JDMC Research Centre, she has conceptualised and mentored a series of projects about Delhi, in which a large number of students and faculty of the college are also involved.

Namita Sethi is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi, India. She received her PhD and MPhil degrees from the University of Delhi, India. She has been an Associate at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, and the recipient of the UGC international travel grant and Charles Wallace and British Council grants for presenting papers in the UK. She has taught, researched and published in the areas of the British long eighteenth century, detective fiction, Adivasi literature, Womens Studies, Indian Classical and European Classical literatures. She has edited the Worldview edition of Swifts Gullivers Travels (2023) and co-edited Rediscovering Delhi (2020). Her article on Santhal literature has been published as a chapter in the book Representing the Exotic and the Familiar: Politics and Perception in Literature (2019). Some of her poems and translations in English and Hindi have been published as well. She is a member of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) and its Indian branch, India International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IISECS).

Table of Contents

Indira Gandhis Foreword to Dilli ki Khoj. The Original Preface to Dilli Ki Khoj. Acknowledgements. Translators Introduction. 1. Delhi of the Hindu Period 2. Delhi of the Islamic Period (Pathan Era 11931546) 3. Delhi during the Muslim Era (Mughals 15261857 AD) 4. British Delhi (18571947) 5. Post-Independence Delhi 6. Perambulating the Eighteen Delhis Afterword by Narayani Gupta

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NPB9781032364766
9781032364766
1032364769
In Search of Delhi: A Translation of Brij Kishan Chandiwala's Dilli ki Khoj by Jitender Gill
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2023-06-19
310
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