While going through earlier posts from this blog on Tilangani’s tomb, I realized that there was one post where I had compared two photos of the edge of the tomb, taken from the same spot but more than five years apart. Since I had Tilangani’s tomb on my mind, I decided to revisit the spot and take yet another photo. Continue reading
The Aga Khan Trust has started restoration work on parts of the mid-14th c tomb of Khan Jahan Tilangani, located in Nizamuddin basti. Tilangani was prime minister during the rule of Firoz Shah Tughlaq. Continue reading
Mehrauli is a large urban village that grew around the shrine of the 13th c. Sufi saint Bakhtiyar Kaki, much like Nizamuddin grew around the shrine of Nizamuddin Auliya (also 13th c. though a little later than Bakhtiyar Kaki). Kaki’s shrine was just outside the walls of Lal Kot, the fortified city within which the Qutb Minar is situated, and Mehrauli has grown right up to the edge of the now ruined fortifications. Continue reading
I had thought that this leg of Dilli Darshaning was going to be of interest mostly only because it would take me to localities in south Delhi that I’d never been to before, while the buildings themselves would be nothing to write home about (or in this case write a blog post about). This is because common lore dictates that Delhi under the Sayyids and Lodhis became a “Necropolis”, a city filled with tombs and graves and nothing much else. Continue reading
This is basically Dilli Darshaning around my own neighborhood, so I was really excited to explore this area. I live about a kilometer away from the two sites that this post is centered around: Humayun’s Tomb and the Dargah of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya, but there were a lot of places around these that I hadn’t been to before! Continue reading
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