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In Search of Delhi


Free Download Jitender Gill, "In Search of Delhi"
English | ISBN: 1032480459 | 2023 | 344 pages | PDF | 28 MB
Dilli ki Khoj is an anecdotal history of Delhi and its monuments by Shri Brij Kishan Chandiwala, an eminent Gandhian. The volume was published in Hindi by the Publications Division of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, in 1964 and has been out of print for many years. This English translation of Dilli ki Khoj revives an out-of-print classic and makes it more accessible to a global audience. The book covers Delhi’s long history, details on monuments built from the ancient times till the early 1960s and a detailed recording of all of Gandhiji’s visits to Delhi. It also traces significant epochs in Indian history and the rise of a national identity.

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Images of Delhi A Literary and Humanistic Geography of Post-independence India


Free Download Images of Delhi: A Literary and Humanistic Geography of Post-independence India
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031285840 | 220 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 4 MB
The main objective of this book is to analyze prominent literary images of Delhi in post-independence India. The author has probed into a number of eminent writings in Hindi, English and other languages. The author’s methodology, a humanistic and phenomenological approach, allows exploration of experiential dimension of writers’ and their characters in various genres of literature. An inquiry into perceptions and imagination in literature enriches the understanding of place, space, time, and seasons, the concerns central to geography.

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