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The Red Fort Of Shahjahanabad

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Author : Anisha Shekhar Mukherji
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

The Red Fort Of Shahjahanabad written by Anisha Shekhar Mukherji and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.

This Richly-Illustrated Book Is An Architectural Biography Of A Fascinating Palace And City. Using The Extant Monuments Of The Red Fort, In Conjunction With Maps. Photographs, Court Chronicles, Travelogues, And Other Historical Material, The Author Takes Us On A Journey Through Time.

The Red Fort Of Shahjahanabad

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Author : Anisha Shekhar Mukherji
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024

The Red Fort Of Shahjahanabad written by Anisha Shekhar Mukherji and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with categories.

Red Fort And Shahjahanabad

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Author : Rupinder Khullar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016

Red Fort And Shahjahanabad written by Rupinder Khullar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.

Shahjahanabad

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Author : Rana Safvi
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2019-10-25

Shahjahanabad written by Rana Safvi and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-25 with Architecture categories.

What is today the overcrowded, neglected city of Old Delhi was once the magnificent capital of the Mughal Empire. At its heart was the spectacular Qila-e-Mubarak, now known as the Red Fort. Commissioned by Emperor Shah Jahan in 1639, the beautiful city of Shahjahanabad was built around the spectacular Qila-e-Mubarak (Red Fort), on the banks of the Yamuna. Almost a decade later, in 1648, Shah Jahan entered through the river gate and celebrated the completion of this 'paradise on earth' filled with gardens, palaces, water bodies, mosques and temples. About two hundred years later, the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, left the fort by the same gate after the failed Mutiny against the British in 1857. Subsequently, both the fort and the city fared badly, as they faced the wrath of the British.The final instalment in Rana Safvi's informative, illustrated series of books on Delhi, Shahjahanabad: The Living City of Old Delhi describes the magnificence of the fort and the city through its buildings that are a living monument to the grandeur and strife of the past.

Red Fort Remembering The Magnificent Mughals

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Author : Debasish Das
language : en
Publisher: BecomeShakespeare.com
Release Date : 2019-12-16

Red Fort Remembering The Magnificent Mughals written by Debasish Das and has been published by BecomeShakespeare.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-16 with History categories.

Today, we associate the Red Fort with the view of the Prime Minister proudly unfurling the national flag every year on 15 August on the massive red wall curtain. To children and even most of us, the Red Fort is only this view that is broadcast on television. It is the ubiquitous image often used in marketing as well. Many of us haven’t even bothered to go inside the Fort, and many, including me, satisfied ourselves with our photos taken in front of this wall. This actually is a later addition erected by Shah Jahan’s son Aurangzeb. The Red Fort is much more than this red wall and the platform where the prime minister delivers his speech. In the book, the author attempts to swipe aside the wall and take a deep dive inside the Fort – not just the physical structures but how exactly the planning was done to create a truly complex and artistic palace fortress, to explore the Mughal way of life with their festivals, ceremonies, food and clothing amongst other themes. The beauty of the fort can only be understood and best appreciated from the string of apartments that once lined the river Yamuna on its opposite side. It must have been beautiful indeed to glide down the Yamuna on a boat and appreciate all the buildings that housed the emperor’s private quarters. Now the river has receded afar, but in olden times the various private apartments such as the Rang mahal, Khwabgah (‘abode of dreams’) or the emperor’s bed-chamber as well as the famous Diwan-e-Khas where the Mughal Emperor sat on the Peacock Throne were lined along the river front. There is a reason why the pioneering British historian-explorer James Fergusson termed the Red Fort ‘the most magnificent palace in the East.’ It was a creative venture well integrated to a new city and was truly unrivalled with respect to its design as well as functioning. The book also highlights that, though separated in time by more than three centuries from today, we can still visualize how the unsure footsteps which Babur took in Hindustan took shape in the reign of Shah Jahan, a connoisseur of art and culture. Descending on one side from Genghis Khan and the brutal Tamerlane on the other, Babur gained an irreversible entry to India in the plains of Panipat almost unexpectedly, by defeating a mammoth army of Ibrahim Lodi in 1526. The Mughals, which was the Persian word for ‘Mongols’, set up an incredible empire in Agra and Delhi, to which were born great emperors like Akbar and Shah Jahan. Apart from magnificent monuments they also built a truly syncretic culture of shared values, encouraged free exchange of knowledge and established rituals, customs and festivals that assimilated age-old traditions from east and west. Even the Taj Mahal, described by Rabindranath Tagore as a ‘teardrop on the face of Time’, was built as a symbol of love of a king to his departed queen, like an re-incarnation of Majnun for his Laila, so different from the obvious imagery that a barbaric king may evoke in one’s mind. Similarly, the Red Fort of Delhi was the culmination of Mughal soft power. With profusely laid flower and fruit-bearing char-bagh gardens criss-crossed with streams of water canals, it was layered in symbolism that art historians find interesting even after many centuries to discuss elements that give it a sense of freshness even with the mere empty shell of buildings left behind after 1857. As the author says, “Delhi however lived up to its reputation of slipping through the very fingers of those who attempted to raise a new city here: starting with Prithvi Raj Chauhan’s Lal Kot; Allauddin Khilji’s Siri; the Tughluq trio’s troika of Tughluqabad, Jahanpanah & Kotla Firuz Shah; Humayun’s Dinpanah and later Lutyen’s Delhi of the British; Shah Jahan’s majestic offering to the city of his choice was soon to be destroyed by fate.” The narrative follows the incidents of 1857 till the British Durbars and highlights that the Fort was not the home of the Mughals only in their prime, but also in their decline and till their very extinction. The book seeks to present the lived culture of Mughals in all its multiple facets. The book is divided in four parts. In Part 1 the focus is on the Imperial court and the court etiquette, cultivation of Persian and its enrichment with translations from Sanskrit, patronage of Hindu and Jain scholars. Part 2 contains detailed accounts of the Red Fort and the symbolism of its architecture, the philosophy of jharokha darshan, ceremonies, games and pastimes, the material culture of costumes and jewellery, food, drink and perfumery. The remaining two parts deal with the decline and fall of the Mughal rule and the British Colonial Durbars at the Red Fort. The broadly historical narrative is enlivened by various anecdotes.

The Story Of The Red Fort

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Author : Swapna Dutta
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

The Story Of The Red Fort written by Swapna Dutta and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Delhi (India) categories.

Delhi

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Author : Pramod Kapoor
language : en
Publisher: Roli Books
Release Date : 2012

Delhi written by Pramod Kapoor and has been published by Roli Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Delhi (India) categories.

Delhi: Red Fort to Raisina traces the journey of Shahjahan's new capital of the Mughal Empire, Shahjahanabad to New Delhi the new capital of British-ruled India.

Dilli S Red Fort By The Yamuna

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Author : N. L. Batra
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

Dilli S Red Fort By The Yamuna written by N. L. Batra and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.

This book presents the story of the imposing Fort in red sandstone built by the Mughal emperor Shahjahan.

Recovering Delhi S Red Fort

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Author : Hemani Singh
language : en
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Release Date : 2010-08

Recovering Delhi S Red Fort written by Hemani Singh and has been published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08 with categories.

Red Fort, Delhi was built in the seventeenth century as the fortress palace of the newly found capital of Shahjahanabad. Built of red sandstone, the fort occupied a huge chunk of land along the river Yamuna. Today, after more than 350 years of turbulent history, the fort stands virtually as an empty shell with a confused mixture of structures within. It stands isolated in terms of its context, Old Delhi (Shahjahanabad) and confused in terms of its usage. The fort is literally a contested landscape in which claims on the same terrain are constantly being renegotiated. Through this book the author tries to demonstrate some of the opportunities that can be uncovered at different scales to begin to articulate the various claims on the fort into a constructive process. The fort is studied historically, contextually and spatially before arriving at a series of proposals that begin to show where a new coherence could be established in terms of attitudes towards the Red Fort and perhaps in terms of contemporary interventions...

Red Fort And Mughal Life

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Author : N. L. Mathur
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964

Red Fort And Mughal Life written by N. L. Mathur and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Delhi (India) categories.