When you walk through Delhi, you’re not really in one city, rather you are in a mixture of many cities. Layers of stone, marble, brick, and glass overlap like the rings of a tree, each layer telling the story of conquest, migration, power, and imagination. From the mythical Indraprastha of the Mahabharata to the gleaming towers of Gurgaon, Delhi keeps rewriting itself, century after century.

This blog post is partly extracted from the book Historical Cities of Delhi: Walks Using the Me...