Shahjahanabad: The Living City of Old Delhi Volume One

The first volume of Shahjahanabad introduces the city as it was built, lived in and ultimately transformed. Rana Safvi begins with the planning of the magnificent Qila-e-Mubarak, or Lal Qila, and the city Shah Jahan built around it, before walking you through the bustling quarters that gave Shahjahanabad its pulse-the Jama Masjid and its environs, the lanes of Matia Mahal, Turkman Darwaza, Chawri Bazar and Khari Baoli. This is the city as its residents knew it: mercantile, sacred and deeply layered with everyday life-before the catastrophic siege of 1857 changed it forever.