Featured Features & Op-eds
Discover articles, interviews, and features highlighting Dilli Dehat Project's work in promoting and preserving Delhi's local history, ecological transformations, and community narratives
Delhi’s ridge was once a shared, sacred landscape. Now faith needs permiss…
It begins, as it has for generations, on a crisp Diwali morning in Devli – an urban village in south Delhi nestled between the residential colonies o…
What Delhi’s villages teach us about development
Development often asks cities to look forward. But in Delhi, looking forward without looking beneath our feet risks repeating a familiar violence: th…
What Delhi owes its urban villages
A building falls in Said-ul-Ajaib. A bed-and-breakfast catches fire in Hauz Rani. In public memory, both incidents may remain attached to larger neig…
Posh colonies ke neeche dabi hain purani zindagiyan — Delhi ke gaon ka sac…
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Delhi के Indigenous लोग कौन हैं? Delhi में कितने गांव होते थे? Delhi के लि…
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Hauz Rani to Tughlaqabad: How South Delhi’s Urban Villages Became Death Tr…
The recent fire at a bed-and-breakfast in Hauz Rani near Malviya Nagar, another fatal blaze in Tughlaqabad, and the reported collapse of a five-store…
Book review: Life in the villages of a megalopolis
Reading Sheher Mein Gaon as someone born and raised in an urban village of Delhi is a deeply personal experience. For me, Deoli is not a case study o…
Delhi's Vanishing Villages: Khap Tradition and the Urban Village Crisis
Long before Delhi became India's capital, it was a landscape of villages -- agricultural commons, grazing grounds, sacred groves, and settlements bou…
The lost history of 1857 runs through Delhi’s villages
The uprising of 1857 remains one of the most contested and defining moments in Indian history. It has been described as a Sepoy Mutiny, a revolt, as …
The house that held Devli together
It is gone now. The bangla (bunglow), Devli’s first pucca house, the one that stood near the old chaupal, the one that older residents still describe…
Hauz Khaz, Mehrauli, Burari, Dhaka: The Villages That Delhi Swallowed Up
Delhi’s rise as an imperial capital, national capital, and modern metropolis was built not only by creating grand avenues, government buildings, monu…