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. ...
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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".
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1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (faint spotting on top edge-otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 351, illus with endpaper maps and b&w drawings in text (no inscriptions).
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F- in F- jacket. F-/F-. 8vo. original burgundy boards gilt (a trifle rubbed & marked) in dustwrapper priced £16.99 (a trifle rubbed & nicked); pp. 352, with endpaper maps. A near fine copy.
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Fraser, Olivia. Very Good in Fine jacket. Remainder. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Full-bound dark red cloth, 351pp, map endpapers. Black remainder mark on bottom edge. Last four pages have indentation from sharp object-not torn. Dustjacket in mylar cover. Second printing. "...this is a unique and dazzling feat of research and adventure by one of the finest writers of his generation."
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Very Good in Very Good/Price Clipped jacket. Size: 6x2x10; Signed by the author on title page. Previous owners gift inscription to verso of ffep. D/J is price clipped. Very slight foxing to top edge of pages.