Author: Y D Sharma
Publisher: Archaelogical Survey of India
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 161
ISBN/UPC (if available): N/A
Description
This fully revised edition includes brief details of all new discoveries in Delhi since 1964.. The most illuminating among these is the find of a rock-edict of Asoka. Less sensational, but no less elucidating for Delhi's past, are the results of the recent excavations at Purana-Qila.
Few Cities in India could claim the long continuity and status that Delhi has enjoyed. In the dim protohistoric past, at the site of the sixteenth century citadel Purana-Qila (Qal’a-I-Kuhna) lay perhaps Indraprastha, capital of the heroes of the epic ‘Mahabharata’. This settlement, known by different names at different times, has been recently excavated by the Archaeological Survey of India on a large scale revealing a continuous occupation from the Mauryan to Early Mughal period - from the third century BFC to the sixteenth century AD.
Since the appearance of the first edition of this book in 1964, new discoveries have been made in Delhi. The most illuminating among these is the find of a rock-edict of Asoka. Less sensational, but no less elucidating for Delhi’s past, are the results of the recent excavations at Purana-Qila. The present edition, which has been added in this edition.
A glorious chapter to Delhi’s history was added as recently as 1966 with the discovery of an inscription of the Maurya emperor Asoka (273-36 B.C.) engraved on a rugged rock of an outcrop of the Aravallis, near Srinivaspuri, west of Kalkaji temple (pp. 10, 105)
Contents
Preface
CHAPTER 1
Introduction
CHAPTER 2
Main features of Indo-Islamic Architecture
CHAPTER 3
History and Architecture
Protohistoric Beginnings
Continuation from Early Historical to Medieval times
The Rajputs
Ancient names of Delhi
The Delhi Sultanat (1206-1526)
The Surs and the Mughals (1526-1707)
Later Mughals (1707-1857)
The modern period
CHAPTER 4
Qutub Area
Lal-Kot
Qila Rai Pithora
Quwwatu’l-Islam-Masjid
Qutb-Minar
Iron Pillar
Iltutmish’s tomb
‘Ala’i-Darwaza
‘Ala’i-Minar
‘Alau’d-Din’s tomb and college
Other monuments
CHAPTER 5
Mehrauli
Adham Khan’s tomb
Baolis (stepped wells)
Dargah-Qutb-Sahib
Hauzi-i-Shamsi
Jahaz-Mahal
CHAPTER 6
Mehrauli bypass
Balban’s tomb
Jamali-Kamali’s mosque and tomb
Madhi-Masjid
CHAPTER 7
Sultan Ghari’s tomb
CHAPTER 8
Mahipalpur
CHAPTER 9
Palam mosque
CHAPTER 10
Begampur
Begampuri-Masjid
Bijai-Mandal
Kalu-Sarai-Masjid
Jahanpanah
CHAPTER 11
Malviyanagar Area
Shaikh Kabiru'd-Din’s tomb or Lal-Gumbad
Shaikh ‘Alau’d-Din tomb
Shaikh Yusuf Qattal’s tomb
Khirki-Masjid
Satpula
CHAPTER 12
Chirag-Delhi
Chiragh-i-Dihli’s dargah
Buhlul Lodi’s tomb
CHAPTER 13
Moth-Masjid
CHAPTER 14
Hauz-Khas
CHAPTER 15
Green Park Area
Bagh-i-Alam-ka-Gumbad
Dadi-Poti and other tombs
CHAPTER 16
Hauz-Khas Enclave
Siri
Nili-Masjid
Idgah
Chor-Minar
CHAPTER 17
Darya Khan’s tomb
CHAPTER 18
New Delhi South Extension I
CHAPTER 19
Mubarak Shah’s tomb
CHAPTER 20
Ramakrishnapuram area
CHAPTER 21
Najaf Khan’s tomb
CHAPTER 22
Safdar-Jang’s tomb
CHAPTER 23
Lodi garden
Muhammad Shah’s tomb
Bara Gumbad-Masjid
Shish-Gumbad
Sikandar Lodi’s tomb
Athpula
CHAPTER 24
Kushk-Mahal
CHAPTER 25
Southern Ridge
Malcha-Mahal
Bhuli Bhatiyari-ka-Mahal
CHAPTER 26
Jantar-Mantar
CHAPTER 27
Hanuman-Mandir
CHAPTER 28
Ugrasen-ki-Baoli
CHAPTER 29
Suraj-Kund
CHAPTER 30
Anangpur dam
CHAPTER 31
Tughluqbad
Ghiyathu’d-Din’s tomb
‘Adilabad
Nai-ka-Kot
CHAPTER 32
Budhiawala Bridge
CHAPTER 33
Badarpur
CHAPTER 34
Asoka’s Rock-edict
CHAPTER 35
Kalkaji temple
CHAPTER 36
Humayun's tomb area
Humayun’s tomb
Barber’s tomb
Nila-Gumbad
Chilla- Nizamu’d-Din Auliya
Arab- sarai..
Afsarwala mosque and tomb
Bu’ Halima’s garden
‘Isa Khan’s tomb
Bara Batashewala-Mahal
Sabz-Burj
Nili-Chhatri
CHAPTER 37
Sundar-Bagh nursery area
Sundarwala-Mahal and Burj
Lakkarwala-Burj
CHAPTER 38
Nizamuddin
Hazrat Nizamu'd-Din’s dargah
Other monuments in the dargah
Kali-or Kalan-Masjid
Khan-i-Jahan Tilangani’s tomb
Ataga Khan’s tomb
Chaunsath-Khamba
Ghalib’s tomb
Bara-Khamba
Lal-Mahal
Khan-I-Khanan’s tomb
Barapula
CHAPTER 39
Lal-Bangla
CHAPTER 40
Purana-Qila area
Purana-Qila
Excavated site
Qal’a-i-Kuhna-Masjid
Sher-Mandal
Khairu’l-Manazil-Masjid
Sher Shah Gate
CHAPTER 41
‘Abdu’n Nabi’s mosque
CHAPTER 42
Kotla Firoz Shah
Ramparts and gates
Jami’-Masjid
Pyramidal structure and Asokan pillar
Other monuments
CHAPTER 43
Kabuli-or Khuni-Darwaza
CHAPTER 44
Hashtsal-Minar
CHAPTER 45
Qadam-Sharif
CHAPTER 46
Ghaziu’d-Din Khan’s college and tomb
CHAPTER 47
Northern Ridge
Flagstaff tower
Chauburji-Masji
Pir-Ghaib
Asoka’s pillar
Ajitgarh or Mutiny Memorial
CHAPTER 48
Shalimar Garden
CHAPTER 49
Badli-Sarai
CHAPTER 50
Coronation Memorial
CHAPTER 51
Tripolia gateways
CHAPTER 52
Raushabara’s garden and tomb
CHAPTER 53
Wazirabad
CHAPTER 54
Metcalfe House
CHAPTER 55
Qudsiya-Bagh
CHAPTER 56
Shahjahanabad
Ramparts and gateways
Kali-or Kalan-Masjid
Sultana Raziya’s tomb
Zinat-Mahal
Fatehpuri-Masjid
Ghalib’s house
Gurudwara-Sisganj
Begam Samru’s palace
Magazine gateways
Jami’-Masjid
Sunahri-Masjid
Zinatu’l-Masjid
CHAPTER 57
Salimgarh
CHAPTER 58
Lal-Qila or Red Fort
Ramparts and gateways
Naubat- or Naqqar-Khana
Diwan-i-Am
Mumtaz-Mahal
Rang-Mahal
Khas-Mahal
Muthamman-Burj
Diwan-i-Khas
Hammam
Moti-Masjid
Hayat-Bakshsh garden and pavilions
Select Bibliography
Index to Monuments