City improbable : writings on Delhi / edited and with an introduction by Khushwant Singh.

Machine generated contents note: THE BUILDING OF THE HALL -- Ved Vyas -- ANANGPAL TOMAR -- Amir Khusrau -- QUTBUDDIN AIBAK -- Hasan Nizami -- THE COURT OF MUHAMMAD BIN TUGHLAQ -- Ibn Battuta -- CONQUEST OF DEHLI -- Timur Lane -- THE BUILDING OF SHAHJAHANABAD -- Samsam-ud-Daula -- THE UNTOUCHABLES -- Khushwant Singh -- IN THE TIME OF AURANGZEB -- Niccolao Manucci -- THE EARLY DAYS OF THE BRITISH -- William Dalrymple -- THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S VISIT -- Emily Eden -- THERE ONCE WAS A FAIR CITY -- Meer Taqi Meer -- Ghalib -- THE CAPTURE OF THE KING -- WS.R. Hodson -- JAT HOUSEHOLDS -- Oswald Wood -- UNCONQUERED STILL -- Perceval Landon -- THE BUILDING OF NEW DELHI -- Sheela Bajaj -- BALLIMARAN AND THE WAR FUND, 1942 -- Chaman Nahal -- DELHI, 1947 -- Yashpal -- FROM THE BALCONY -- Octavio Paz -- BHABIJI'S HOUSE -- Ruskin Bond -- A WORLD OF WORDS -- Renuka Singh -- MRS GUPTA NEVER RANG -- Jan Morris -- DELHI DURING EMERGENCY -- Pran Sabhanral -- NOW THE TEARS HAVE DRIED UP -- Dhiren Bhagat -- DELHI BY SEASON -- Namita Gokhale -- I NEVER KNEW HIS NAME -- Anees Jung -- LODI GARDEN -- Bulbul Sharma -- DILLI KA DASTARKHWAN -- Sadia Dehlvi -- FROM DELHI -- Tabish Khair -- TIME PRESENT AND TIME PAST -- Seeme Qasim -- LODI COLONY -- Ranjana Sengupta -- LOVERS, THEY ARE EVERYWHERE -- Radhika Chandiramani -- THE KINGDOM OF WASTE -- Bharati Chaturuedi -- SUJAN SINGH PARK -- Madhu Jain -- BITCH -- Mrinal Pande -- CITY WITHOUT NATIVES -- Vijay Nambisan -- IN THE COMPANY OF HIJRAS -- Anita Roy -- SHAHJAHANABAD: THE CITY THAT ONCE WAS -- Pavan K. Varma -- PUBLIC RELIEF -- Manjula Padmanabhan -- ONE LONG PARTY -- Renuka Narayanan -- CITY OF WALLS, CITY OF GATES -- Rukmini Bhaya Nair.

Contributed articles on history and social life of Delhi, India.