In Search of Delhi: A Translation of Brij Kishan Chandiwala's Dilli ki Khoj
Autor Jitender Gill, Namita Sethien Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 iun 2023
The volume spans the genres of journalism, architecture, history, mythology and area studies and will be of special interest to historiographers, especially in the contemporary context.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781032480459
ISBN-10: 1032480459
Pagini: 344
Ilustrații: 3 Tables, black and white; 3 Tables, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge India
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1032480459
Pagini: 344
Ilustrații: 3 Tables, black and white; 3 Tables, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge India
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
PostgraduateCuprins
Indira Gandhi’s Foreword to Dilli ki Khoj. The Original Preface to Dilli Ki Khoj. Acknowledgements. Translators’ Introduction. 1. Delhi of the Hindu Period 2. Delhi of the Islamic Period (Pathan Era 1193–1546) 3. Delhi during the Muslim Era (Mughals 1526–1857 AD) 4. British Delhi (1857–1947) 5. Post-Independence Delhi 6. Perambulating the Eighteen Delhis Afterword by Narayani Gupta
Notă biografică
Jitender Gill is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Janki Devi Memorial College (JDMC), University of Delhi, India. She was awarded a doctoral degree in English literature by the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. She is a recipient of a Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Lecturer Fellowship in 2010‒11. Her primary areas of research are nineteenth-century British literature and culture. She has written articles and presented papers at various conferences on nineteenth-century British literature as well as popular culture. She has also edited Rediscovering the City in Times of Covid (2021) and has co-edited Rediscovering Delhi (2020). As the Director of JDMC Research Centre, she has conceptualised and mentored a series of projects about Delhi, in which a large number of students and faculty of the college are also involved.
Namita Sethi is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi, India. She received her PhD and MPhil degrees from the University of Delhi, India. She has been an Associate at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, and the recipient of the UGC international travel grant and Charles Wallace and British Council grants for presenting papers in the UK. She has taught, researched and published in the areas of the British long eighteenth century, detective fiction, Adivasi literature, Women’s Studies, Indian Classical and European Classical literatures. She has edited the Worldview edition of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (2023) and co-edited Rediscovering Delhi (2020). Her article on Santhal literature has been published as a chapter in the book Representing the Exotic and the Familiar: Politics and Perception in Literature (2019). Some of her poems and translations in English and Hindi have been published as well. She is a member of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) and its Indian branch, India International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IISECS).
Namita Sethi is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi, India. She received her PhD and MPhil degrees from the University of Delhi, India. She has been an Associate at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, and the recipient of the UGC international travel grant and Charles Wallace and British Council grants for presenting papers in the UK. She has taught, researched and published in the areas of the British long eighteenth century, detective fiction, Adivasi literature, Women’s Studies, Indian Classical and European Classical literatures. She has edited the Worldview edition of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (2023) and co-edited Rediscovering Delhi (2020). Her article on Santhal literature has been published as a chapter in the book Representing the Exotic and the Familiar: Politics and Perception in Literature (2019). Some of her poems and translations in English and Hindi have been published as well. She is a member of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) and its Indian branch, India International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IISECS).
Descriere
Dilli ki Khoj is an anecdotal history of Delhi and its monuments by Sh. Brij Kishan Chandiwala. This English translation of Dilli ki Khoj revives an out-of-print classic and make it more accessible to a global audience.