Only four of Delhi’s 13 Mughal-era gates remain. Hemmed in by neglect and time, they now stand as crumbling reminders of the ...

Shahjahanabad therefore is the ‘Delhi’ at the heart of intergenerational public memory. Once India gained freedom in 1947, the cartographic imprints of the entire area changed unrecognisably.

He named this new capital after himself, Shahjahanabad. The city had massive fortification, with 14 grand gateways. These formidable walls and gates secured Shahjahanabad and also constructed an i ...

PREMIUM The map of Shahjahanabad, the city that was established at the height of the Mughal empire, now known as Old Delhi. It shows the city that existed in the 1840s. (Courtesy Roli Books ...

(Courtesy: Shahjahanabad: Mapping a Mughal City, By Swapna Liddle, Roli Books) Author and historian Swapna Liddle makes a compelling point about the value of physical maps when we discuss her new ...

Urdu may be embattled now, but a culture informed by it lingers in the gullies of Shahjahanabad. Historian Swapna Liddle described Delhi as two cities: the Mughal-era walled city of Shahjahanabad ...

Rana Safvi begins her book, the final volume of a trilogy on Delhi, with the prehistory of Shahjahanabad, named after its royal patron, Emperor Shah Jahan, in the 17th century. Where the city was ...

The Red Fort Complex was built as the palace fort of Shahjahanabad – the new capital of the fifth Mughal Emperor of India, Shah Jahan. Named for its massive enclosing walls of red sandstone, it is ...

This beautiful engraving of the city of Shahjahanabad, the grand capital of Mughal India, was already a memory when it was published in The Illustrated London News on January 16, 1858. The ...

Delhi government wants to showcase the ‘Redevelopment of Shahjahanabad’ through its tableau at the Republic Day parade next year and has invited tenders for the conceptualisation, designing ...

One of the oldest alleyways of Shahjahanabad, Dariba Kalan is a 17th-century gem that awaits a visit by travellers eager to experience the rich cultural traditions of the old city. The word ...

Hemmed in by neglect and time, they now stand as crumbling reminders of the city’s walled history When Mughal emperor Shah Jahan built Shahjahanabad as his new capital in the 17th century ...