by WilliamDalrymple (Author)
Indraprastha is the Hindu name for the first, mythical Delhi. In this book the author peels back the successive encrusting layers of Delhi's history, using both the material and the human remains of each period as a touchstone with the present. With each of the six cities of Delhi being revealed in respective chapters, the climax, the final chapter, tells of the mythical first city, whose beginnings, told in the Mahamarata, form the principle Hindu creation myth. This book is a portrait of Delhi, the mother of all cities. Its dry plains are the fertile meeting point of all the great cultures of South Asia, the place where Rajput, Persian, Afghan and British influences all intermingle. By the author of In Xanadu .
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 06 Sep 1993
ISBN 10: 000215725X
ISBN 13: 9780002157254
Book Overview: William Dalrymple was awarded The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award in 1994. This book was awarded the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.