The Seven Cities of Delhi – Gordon Hearn (1928) (2nd edition)

S$70.00

The Seven Cities of Delhi – Gordon Hearn (1928) (2nd edition)

S$70.00

Title: The Seven Cities of Delhi

Author: Colonel Sir Gordon Hearn

Publisher: Thacker, Spint & Co., Calcutta & Simla, 1928. Second edition.

Condition: Hardcover, boards. Good. Tanning and soiling to cover, with an ink stain to edges. Inscription to ffep and bookseller’s stamp of back of frontispiece. With numerous illustrations, and 6 maps, including 5 foldout maps. 274pp., 7.5″ by 5″.

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Contents:

  1. The Seven Cities
  2. Old Delhi
  3. Siri, Tughlukabad and Jahanpanah
  4. Firozabad and the Delhi of Sher Shah
  5. Shahjahanabad
  6. The Palace
  7. The Outskirts of Shahjahanabad
  8. The Century following Conquest
  9. Tughlak to Babr
  10. The Splendour of the Moghals
  11. Decline of the Moghal Empire
  12. Delhi under “John Company”
  13. The Mutyny of 1857 and the Siege
  14. Delhi since 1857