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Mehrauli: A View from the Qutb. Text by Charles Lewis,

Photographs by Karoki Lewis, Foreword by William Dalrymple.
pp. 141. With colour plates. New Delhi, Harpers Collins....

Article  in  Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society · November 2005

DOI: 10.1017/S1356186305335565

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Mehrauli: A View from the Qutb. Text by Charles Lewis, Photographs by Karoki Lewis,
Foreword by William Dalrymple. pp. 141. With colour plates. Xxxxxxx, Harpers Collins Publishers
India, 2002.
doi:10.1017/S1356186305005365

It is unclear what this book wants to be. It is clear is that this is not a scholarly work for it lacks academic
rigour and the scholarly apparatus. It is also clear that this is not a coffee-table book for the text fails to
set the jewel-like photographs into one coherent narrative. It can best be regarded as a collage made
up of historical facts, tourist-guide stories, personal opinion and comments on the present-day state of
Mehrauli, and a superb photographic stroll through the area. It could have been better designed. For
example, reading the preface, and the notes and references (which are on a grainy background) is a
visual challenge.
Vibhuti Sachdev
Gurgaon

JRAS, Series 3, 15, 3 (2005), p. 1

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