A 'notified' future for Delhi's past

South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 101-115

  Gupta, Narayani ^a  

^a Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH)   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTORY;

ASIA; DELHI; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33645118024     PISSN: 00856401     EISSN: 14790270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00856400600550823     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. All the photographs used in this article were taken by Ratish Nanda.
2. Actually Nehru did do something in this direction which went unnoticed. Though alternative schemes were prepared for the re-ordering of New Delhi, his government left the capitol complex untouched; contrast the insensitive British treatment of the Mughal Red Fort in 1857.
3. Here again, interestingly, as with Asar-us-Sanadid, is a case of a major work not available in translation.
4. The Delhi Circle was created during the reorganisation of the Archaeological Survey after Partition.
5. The Archaeological Survey, upset at losing its showpiece Indus Valley sites to Pakistan, was allocating much of its resources to 'discover' Harappa and Mahabharata sites (the major excavation project at the Purana Qila in Delhi in the 1960s being an example of this).