Smoke without fire : [Book] memories of pre-partition Delhi / Abdul Rahman Siddiqi ; foreword by Sheila Dikshit, chief minister of Delhi.
Material type: TextPublication details: Karachi : Royal Book Company, 2014Edition: Pakistani editionDescription: xi, 338 pages : 22 cmISBN:- 9789694074091 (hardback)
- 9789694074191 (hardback)
- 954.56
- 954.56
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"A joint India-Pakistan Heritage Publication"--Cover.
First published in India by Aakar Books.
The book could have been appropriately subtitled as 'Life in Pre-Partition Delhi (Dilli) Laid Bare'. It is, the first, and easily the last one of its kind by one of the vanishing breed of vintage Dilliwalas, born, bred and educated over there, before emigrating to Pakistan. Old Dilli of the author's childhood, breathed the very air of the life and times of Ghadar - the (Revolt or the Mutiny) of 1857. Until the early 30s there was hardly any electricity, running water, pucca paved streets and public transport except for tongas and dolies for women traveling from one mohallah, one house, one street to another.
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