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May 29, 2026
Hauz Khaz, Mehrauli, Burari, Dhaka: The Villages That Delhi Swallowed Up
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Delhi’s rise as an imperial capital, national capital, and modern metropolis was built not only by creating grand avenues, government buildings, monuments, and planned colonies, but also through the repeated absorption, displacement, and erasure of villages that had long occupied the land beneath the city. From the Delhi Durbar of 1911 to the building of New Delhi, from the aftermath of the 1857 uprising to the refugee crisis that followed Partition, rural settlements around the city suppli
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