Forgotten Cities Of Delhi

In The Forgotten Cities of Delhi book two of the Where Stones Speak trilogy covers historical trails in Siri Jahanpanah Tughlaqabad Firozabad Din Panah Shergarh and Hazrat Nizamuddin Basti.In her trademark style Rana Safvi combines narrative history with Sufi couplets and takes you on a walk across the first city of Mehrauli and Firozabad. This period was a major step towards integration of two distinct cultures towards a culture called IndoIslamic by many historians. In the latter half of this volume she tells us stories from an area and an era thats perhaps the richest in Delhis archaeological history Shahjahanabad and Firozabad on one end and Jahanpanah and Siri on the other a stretch thats today dotted with tombs dargahs and the ruins of the Purana Qila. This area also houses the famous Humayuns tomb and the center of Delhis spiritual trail the Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah.