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Delhis landscape forms a dense pattern of the old and the new a maze of streets and dwellings where historic ruins rub shoulders with modern day complexes and where the expanding city encroaches relentlessly on village settlements that date back centuries. Delhis Historic Villages brilliantly captures this uneasy embrace of tradition and modernity. Eight villages have been singled out for the historical interest of medieval monuments in their midstfrom the ruins ...
Mehrauli, today a small township on the outskirts of New Delhi, has a record of nearly ten centuries of continuous occupation. The ruins of Lal Kot from eleventh century Rajput times and the Qutb Minar world Heritage site, the medieval-period baolis, garden tombs, shrines and mosques scattered about the vicinity, the monsoon place of the last of the Mughals, Bahadur Shah Zafar, reflect almost a thousand year of the history of Delhi itself, Mehrauli is rich in ...