Mirza Sangin Beg’s Sair-ul Manazil
by
Shama Mitra Chenoy
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Commissioned by the English East India Company to write about contemporary nineteenth-century Delhi, Mirza Sangin Beg walked around the city to capture its highly fascinating urban and suburban extravaganza. Laced with epigraphy and fascinating anecdotes, the city as ‘lived experience’ has an...