CONTENTS Foreword 9 Introduction 11 PRE-SULTANATE: ONCE UPON A TIME 13 Suraj Kund SULTANATE: YESTERDAY'S SPACE 23 Sultan Garhi Bakhtiyar Kaki's Dargah City of Siri Matka Pir Chor Minar, Idgah and Neeli Masjid TUGHLAQ: SET IN THE PAST 57 Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq's Tomb More on the Tughlaqs Waterworks at Satpula Firoz Shah Kotla The Hunting Lodges of Firoz Shah Tughlaq Pir Ghaib Firoz Shah Tughlaq's Tomb and Madarsa Khirki Village Begumpuri Mosque and Vijay Mandal Lal Gumbad and Madarsa Zeenatul Chiragh Dilli and Bahlol Lodi's Tomb In and Around Sadhna Enclave Agrasen ki Baoli SAIYYID: CONFINES OF TIME 139 Kotla Mubarakpur LODI: TRACING THE SPIRIT 145 Makhdum Sabzwari's Dargah Tombs of Kale Khan and Bade Khan Moth ki Masjid Around Green Park Darya Khan Lohani's Tomb and Teen Burji Tombs of Zamroodpur Wazirpur ka Gumbad MUGHAL: DESIGNED TO REMEMBER195 Tombs of Atgah Khan and Adham Khan Jamali Kamali Inside Purana Qila Khan-e-Khanan's Tomb On Mathura Road Arab ki Sarai In and About Bharatiyam Complex Inside the Golf Course Bagh-e-Bedil Dadabari Jain Temple Aliganj Safdarjung's Tomb Metcalfe's Dilkusha Around Sunder Nursery Ruins of Sarai Shahji Anglo-Arabic School Ghaziuddin Khan's Mosque and Tomb Zafar Mahal POST-MUGHAL: BEYOND TIME 307 Mutiny Memorial Nicholson's Cemetery St. Martin's Church Buddha Jayanti Park Chronology 328 Glossary 331 Bibliography 334 Index 335 Map 343