RESTORING HUMAYUN’S TOMB: AN INITIATIVE OF THE AGA KHAN DEVELOPMENT NETWORK – TAASA Review June 2011
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This article was originally found in the June 2011 edition of TAASA Review (Volume 20, Issue 2, Page 10).
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Narayani Gupta I n the 17th century travellers riding from Agra to Delhi knew they were near the great city when they saw the white dome of Humayun’s Tomb glimmering in the distance.
In the 19th century European officials, equipped with servants and a generous breakfast, set out from Shah Jahan’s Delhi (Old Delhi nowadays) to picnic at Humayun’s Tomb.
In the 1920s the historian Percival Spear rode at the head of a posse of students on bicycles from St Stephen’s College, for a moonlit evening of revelry at the Tomb...