Publisher's Synopsis
A chess game was going on. The land belonged to Delhi. The Whites and the Blacks were playing initially. First, the Whites won, and the Blacks lost. Later on, the Blacks won and the Whites were ousted out. The Blacks, after winning assumed the mantle of the Whites only. Many were spectators of this game, but the two persons were allured towards it so much that they started to write about it. The historian took the pen in hand first and wrote the real account of this game played on the land of Delhi. Next, was the turn of the fiction writers to weave a fictional account based on the real account. The historian and the fiction writers then turned back and they saw that their combined effort resulted in a mutual overlap of History and the fiction. The calender was laid open, the pen was in the hand, the eyes were searching for the historical dates and the years that can be used to navigate its history. The peregrination was long and challenging, but quite interesting. It was a navigation from 1857 to 1984. Different sailors, different turbulent waves, different rise and fall with each wave, different types of historical contours in which fatality was hidden, different tunes of destiny and the time would be what the readers will meet in relation to Delhi, as they will start turning the pages.
Nothing in this world exists in isolation. Every present has a past. This past, which we refer to as history will be the main focus of my research. History is always full of the anecdotes of success, defeats, jubiliations and the commiserations. The historians were always engaged in bringing out the facts about person, building or a city etc. They were allured towards the past of certain things. It was something that they admire and wanted to get into its depth. They wanted to document it in their documents, in their records because of certain remarkable feature in their history.
