Excellent. High 4 stars.
Review to follow, I hope in Bengali, but if not, in English.


Short notes lest I forget:
Different Delhis - of the Mughals, the British, and the Pandavas....
Human history.

The Puris. International Backside Taxi. Balvinder Singh, Punjab Singh. Partition stories. East of Jumna massacres.

Ahmed Ali. Twilight in Delhi. Karachi.
Iris Portal. Lutyens.

William Fraser, and his brothers. David Ochterlony. James Skinner. Skinner's horse. Bungalow - beyond Kashmere Gate. Teh-khana.
Norah Nicholson.
The transvestites of Delhi.

The real hero of this book - Dr Yunus Jaffery, Persian/ Mughal historian, half-dervish, and pucca delhi-wallah.
Bernier and Manucci's Mogul/Delhi books.
Shahabuddin postman's daughter's marriage.
Mirza-namah.
Sack of Delhi in 1857. Shah Alam. Bahadur Shah Zafar.
Red fort. The story of Shahjehanabad. Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb, and Jahanara and Roshanara Begum.
Old Delhi. Kabootar baz.
Hindu and Muslim Architecture. Shalimar Garden.
Begum Pakeezah, and the last scion of the Mughals.

Nizamuddin. Khwaja Nizamuddin Auliya. Qawwali.
Elephant analogy to God.
Muhammad Bin Tughlaq. Djinns of Delhi. Daulatabad move. Ibn Battutta's travels. Jahanpanah.
Sadr ud-din djinn catcher.
Sufi. Dervish. Fekir. Ajmer. Moinuddin Chishti.
The Daulatabad Chishti monastery remains, like Nizamuddin.
Khwaja Khizr.

Mahabharata. Indraprastha. The first Delhi. Nigambodh Ghat. Sanskrit. The downpour.
Olivia Fraser's artwork.