Images of Delhi

Here are some images of Delhi to give you a sense of the kinds of urban spaces that Ahmed Ali is talking about.

This is from a map of Shahjahanabad (also called Old Delhi or the Walled City) from 1858, right after the Mutiny:



Much of the middle part of the novel describes the Delhi Durbar of 1911 (or the Coronation of George V. These images should give you a sense of the enormous expenditure that the Durbar involved. The last image is of a Delhi street in 1908, roughly the time at which the novel opens.