📘 The Indian Metropolis: A View Toward the West (1989) by Norma EvensonAn excellent survey of Indian cities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
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📘 Delhi: A Historical Sketch (1937) by Percival SpearPercival Spear is the original urban historian of Delhi, and his works are a part of the wave of historical interest triggered by the relocation of British India’s capital to the city. This is arguably the most well-rounded of his Delhi histories. Available for free on archive.org.
📘 Negotiating Cultures: Delhi’s Architecture and Planning from 1912 to 1962 (2018) by Pilar Maria Guerrieri
📘 Indian Summer: Lutyens, Baker, and Imperial Delhi (1981) by Robert Grant Irving
📘 Connaught Place and the Making of New Delhi (2018) by Swapna Liddle
📘 Indigenous Modernities: Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism (2012) by Jyoti Hosagrahar
