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Havelis of Old Delhi

 
Pavan K Varma (Author)
Synopsis The book focuses on the mansions built in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, of which in some cases, little remains beyond a pile of rubble, while in others, there is sufficient evidence of an indigenous architectural technique and the gracious lifestyle it once upheld. It was as far back as 1825 that Bishop Heber visited Delhi and remarked that the spider hangs her tapestry in the palace of the Caesars’. In June 1989, Varma and Shankar began their eighteen-month walk through those streets—past alleys, through doorways, up narrow staircases and down mildewed basements to produce this invaluable and enduring document of a lost era. Through them an entire period of recent Indian history, encapsulating feudal Nawabs and British Sahebs, comes alive. The text and photographs are not merely descriptive. Underlying them is a disturbing statement of India’s fast diminishing heritage.
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About the author

Pavan K Varma

Pavan K. Varma graduated with honours in History from St Stephens College, Delhi, and took a degree in Law from Delhi University. A member of the Indian Foreign Service, he has served in Moscow, in New York at the Indian Mission to the United Nations, and as India’s High Commissioner in Cyprus. He has been Press Secretary to the President of India, Official Spokesman for the Foreign Office, and is at present Director of the Nehru Centre in London. He is the author of Ghalib: The Man, The Times; Krishna: The Playful Divine; Yudhishtar and Draupadi: A Tale of Love, Passions and the Riddles of Existence; The Great Indian Middle Class; The Book of Krishna; and Maximize Your Life (with Renuka Khandekar), all published by Penguin. He has also translated Kaifi Azmi (Selected Poems) and Atal Bihari Vajpayee (21 Poems) into English for Penguin.

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Title Havelis of Old Delhi
Author Pavan K Varma
Format Hardcover
Date published: 01.01.1999
Edition Reprint
Publisher 101 Moments
Language: English
length 126p., Plates; Notes; Map.