Author: Khushwant Singh
Translator(s)/ Editors(s): Usha Mahajan
Publisher: Kitabghar Prakashan
Year: 2010
Language: Hindi
Pages: 334
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170161916
Description
I return to Delhi as I return to my mistress Bhagmati when I have had my fill of whoring in foreign lands Thus begins Khushwant Singh's vast, erotic, irreverent magnum opus on the city of Delhi.
Travelling through time, space and history to 'discover' his beloved city the narrator meets a myriad of people - poets and princes, saints and sultans, temptresses and traitors, emperors and eunuchs - who have participated in the major historical forces that have shaped and endowed Delhi with its very special mystique.
Contents
Delhi
Lady J H T
Bhagmati
Musaddi Lal
Bhagmati
The Timurid
Bhagmati
The Untouchables
Bhagmati
Aurangzeb Alamgir: Emperor of Hindustan
Bhagmati
Nadir Shah
Bhagmati
Meer Tagi Meer
Bhagmati
1857
Bhagmati
The Builders
Bhagmati
The Dispossessed
Bhagmati