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NOVELS ON DELHI

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Delhi has a fair share of literature dedicated to it in terms of fiction. With urbanism becoming the dominant mode of habitation and settlement, individuals today have a lot of the “city” in them and thus following its continuities and contradictions in terms of a shared way of life; processes producing, validating and exploiting that shared way of life; and visible, textual and symbolic expressions of it carries a lot of interest and relevance for the urban populace. Writings on a city have a trans-national readership today, as cities go global and city-zens increasingly mobile through them. By documenting the literary output commencing from Shahajahanabad to the Millenium City of today, this page engages with the processes of documenting, producing and preserving the culture of a city enabling Delhi enthusiasts to rethink “Delhi culture” as the site of many contacts and contestations, forgettings and remembering, crises and managements, selves and othernesses and centre and peripheries through successive periods of imperial and national history.

Abha Dawesar (2009). Babyji. Penguin India.
Adiga, A. (2008). The white tiger: A novel. Simon and Schuster.
Ahmad, N. (2001). The Bride’s Mirror: A Tale of Life in Delhi a Hundred Years Ago. Trans. GE Ward. New Delhi: Permanent Black.
Ali, Ahmad (1994). Twilight in Delhi. New Directions Paper-book.
Anappara, D. (2020). Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line: A Novel. Random House.
Andleeb, S., Khan, M. A., & Ahmad, S. (2020). Delhi: A Metaphor of Hope and Despair in Delhi and Twilight in Delhi. Global Social Sciences Review (GSSR) Vol.V (II), 334-340.
Askari, M. H., Askari, M. H., & Coppola, C. (1998). A novel by Ahmed Ali. Journal of South Asian Literature, 33(1/2), 243-254.
Bajaj, K. (2013). Keep off the Grass. Harper Collins.
Bajpai, V. (2019). Mastaan: The Fallen Patriot of Delhi. TreeShade Books.
Banerjee, S. (2004). Corridor. Penguin Books India.
Basu, D. (2017). The Windfall. Crown, New York.
Basu, S. (2022). The City Inside. Tordotcom.
Bhagat, C. (2006). Five Point Someone–What Not to Do at IIT! (Indian Institute of Technology). Rupa India.
Bhasin, J., Bhasin, S C. (2022). The Haunting of Delhi City: Tales of the Supernatural. HarperCollins India
Bhattacharjee, K. (2018). A Baloch Militant in Delhi. Westland Publications.
Bond, R. (1994). Delhi Is Not Far: The Best of Ruskin Bond. Penguin Books India.
Bose, S (2010). Single in the City. Om Books International.
Chauhan, A. (2013). Those pricey Thakur girls. HarperCollins Publishers India.
Dalrymple, W. (2003). City of Djinns: A year in Delhi. Penguin.
Darlymple, W (2006). The Last Mughal: the Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857. Bloomsbury, London.
Das, S (2007). Sumthing of a Mocktale. Srishti Publishers and Distributors.
Dasgupta, R. (2014). Capital: A portrait of twenty-first century Delhi. Text Publishing.
Dasgupta, R. (2014). Capital: The Eruption of Delhi. Penguin.
Davies, D. (2018). Urban comix: Subcultures, infrastructures and “the right to the city” in Delhi. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 54(3), 411-430.
Dayal, M. (Ed.). (2010). Celebrating Delhi. Penguin Books India.
Desai, A. (2012). In custody. Random House India.
Desai, A. (2012). Clear light of day. Random House India.
Divakaruni, C. B. (2009). The palace of illusions (Vol. 5). Pan Macmillan.
Divvaakar, S D (2012). The Winner’s Price. Konark Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.
Dutta D., Singh N (2011). If it’s Not Forever – It’s not love. Penguin Metro reads.
Ghose, S. (2014). The Gin Drinkers. HarperCollins.
Ghosh, A (2016). Up Campus Down Campus. Speaking Tiger Publishing Pvt. Ltd.
Ghosh, A. (2010). The shadow lines. Penguin Books India.
Grant, M. (1941). The Star of Delhi. The Shadow, #225.
Gupta, N. (1987). Our City, Delhi. Oxford University Press.
Gutleben, C. (2009). Generic Displacement: Difference and Repetition in Anita Desai’s Indian Campus Novel. Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 31(31.2), 124-132.
Gygax, G (2009). Death in Delhi. Paizo Publishing, LLC.
Hall, T. (2010). The Case of the Missing Servant: Vish Puri, Most Private Investigator (Vol. 1). McClelland & Stewart.
Hall, T. (2012). The Case of the Man who Died Laughing. Random House.
Hall, T. (2013). The case of the deadly butter chicken (Vol. 3). Random House.
Hall, T. (2013). The Case of the Love Commandos: From the Files of Vish Puri, India's Most Private Investigator (Vol. 4). Simon and Schuster.
Hillion, M. (2019). Re-imagining Delhi as an Ordinary City: Siddharth Chowdhury’s Quiet Revolution. Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 42(42.1).
Jhabvala, R. P. (2016). East into upper east: plain tales from New York and New Delhi. Catapult.
K, Abhay. (2014). The Seduction of Delhi. Delhi: Bloomsbury.
Kala, A. (2009). Almost Single. Random House Digital, Inc.
Kapoor, D. (2015). A Bad Character: A Novel. Vintage.
Kapur, M. (2012). Home. Faber & Faber.
Kesavan, M. (2008). Looking Through Glass. Penguin Books India.
Kumar, G., & Manjula, K. T. (2022). Systematic Review of Urban Palimpsest and Collective Memory in Fiction: A Study with Reference to Delhi City. International Journal of Philosophy and Languages (IJPL), 1(1), 1-33.
Liddle, M. (2011). The Eighth Guest and other Muzaffar Jang mysteries. Hachette India.
Liddle, M. (2021). The Garden of Heaven A Novel. Speaking Tiger.
Louis Fernandes Khurshid (2014). Travails With Chachi: Conversation with a DLY Taxi Driver. Hay House India.
Mahmood, S. (2018). Beloved Delhi: A Mughal City and Her Greatest Poets. Speaking Tiger.
Marlewicz, H. (2016). Heterotopian City Khushwant Singh and his Delhi: A Novel. Politeja-Pismo Wydziału Studiów Międzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 13(40), 159-175.
Mathur, A. (2004). The Department of Denials. Penguin Books India.
McCaul, Kathleen. (2012). Murder in the Ashram. Leicester: Charnwood
Miller, S. (2010). Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity. Macmillan.
Mitra, S. (2019). The school in the cloud: The emerging future of learning. Corwin.
Mittal, P. A. (2010). Heartbreaks & Dreams! The Girls@ IIT. Srishti Publishers & Distributors.
Mittal, S. (2015). Shahjahanabad: Two Images. International Journal of Law, Education, Social and Sports Studies (IJLESS), Volume: 2 (S2), pp. 48-64.
Mittal, S. (2016). Anita Desai’s In Custody: Delhi’s Tryst with Turmoil. SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH, 4(7), 17-17.
Mittal, S. (2016). Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi’s Mirat-Ul Uroos: Through the Lens of The Colonized. In Journal of Advances in Social Science and Humanities 2:8, pp. 07-14
Mittal, S. (2016). Delhi And Democracy in Nayantara Sahgal’s This Time of Morning. In Research Journal of English Language and Literature (RJELAL) Vol. 4 (3), pp. 64-74.
Mittal, S. (2017). Khushwant Singh’s Delhi A Novel: Recollecting and Reclaiming the City. In Research Journal of English Language and Literature (RJELAL) Vol. 5 (3), pp. 56-65.
Mittal, S. (2017). What is Millenial Delhi Writing? In International Journal of Law, Education, Social and Sports Studies (IJLESS), Volume: 4 (3), pp. 72-85
Mittal, S. (2018). DELHI IN AHMED ALI’S TWILIGHT IN DELHI. In Acme International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, Volume 6 (1), pp. 4-13.
Mittal, S. (2021). Graphic Novels and Delhi: Contested Spaces in the Popular. In Indian Popular Fiction (pp. 133-155). Routledge.
Mukundan, M. (2020). Delhi: A Soliloquy. Trans by Fathima E.V. and Nandakumar K., Chennai: Westland Publications.
Nair, V. (2012). Delhi OMG. Om Books International
Nandrajog, H. (2018). From Indraprastha to Delhi: The Cityscape as Sediment of Memories. In The IAFOR Conference on Heritage & the City – New York 2018 Official Conference Proceedings
Narayan, P. (2021). Gender and Domestic Space in Ahmed Ali's and Krishna Sobti's Novels on Old Delhi. IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies, 1(1), 35-48.
Patterson, J., Sanghi, A. (2017). Private Delhi. Arrow.
Prager, Dave (2012). Delirious Delhi: Inside India’s Incredible Capital. Arcade Publishing, New York.
Prakash, U. (2014). The Walls of Delhi: Three Stories. Seven Stories Press.
Podruczna, A. (2015). Walking through (Hi) stories: City and Temporality in Vandana Singh’s “Delhi”. In Urban Amazement (pp. 113-123). Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego.
Rao, M. (2020). Polite Society. United Kingdom: Headline Publishing Group.
Ray, R. (2016). The Sultan of Delhi. HACHETTE INDIA
Roy A (2018). The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. penguin India.
Rushdie, S. (2010). Midnight's children: A novel. Vintage Canada.
Rutherford, A. (2010). Empire of the Moghul: Brothers at War. Hachette UK.
Sabharwal, E. (2013). The Delhi Deception. CreateSpace.
Sadana, R. (2016). Reading Delhi, writing Delhi: An ethnography of literature. In Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities: Methods, Reflections, and Approaches to the Global South (pp. 151-163). New York: Palgrave Macmillan US.
Sahgal, N. (2011). A situation in New Delhi. Penguin Books India.
Saif, M. (2024). Beloved Delhi: A Mughal City and her Greatest Poets. Speaking Tiger.
Saikia, A. (2007). Jet City Woman. Rupa & Company.
Sawhney, H. (Ed.). (2009). Delhi noir. Akashic Books.
Shamsie, K. (2009). Burnt shadows. Bond Street Books.
Sen, L. B. (2020). From Cybermohalla to Trickster City: Writing from the margins of Delhi. In Delhi: New Literatures of the Megacity (pp. 64-75). Routledge.
Sharma, A. (2014). An obedient father. Faber & Faber.
Sethi, A. (2012). A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi. WW Norton & Company.
Sethi, R. (2017). Can past cultural hibridity be revived? Old Delhi in Anita Desai's fiction. Eu-topías: revista de interculturalidad, comunicación y estudios europeos, (14), 161-169.
Sibal, S. (2021). Equations. Harper Collins India.
Singh, A. (2016). Necropolis: A New Delhi Crime Novel. Akashik Books.
Singh, K. (Ed.). (2008). Sahibs who Loved India. Penguin Books India.
Singh, P. (2020). Graphic Delhi: Narrating the Indian Emergency, 1975–1977 in Vishwajyoti Ghosh’s Delhi Calm. In Graphic Narratives about South Asia and South Asian America (pp. 86-103). Routledge.
Singh, R. (2017). I too had a Love Story. Random House.
Snehanshu, H (2005). Oops! I Fell in Love. Srishti Publishers and Distributors.
Sobti K (2005). The Heart Has Its Reasons. Katha.
Swarup, V. (2010). Six Suspects: A Novel. Macmillan.
Tickell, A., & Ranasinha, R. (2018). Delhi: new writings on the megacity. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 54(3), 297-306.
Vassanji, M. G. (2019). A Delhi Obsession: A Novel. Doubleday Canada.
Verma Nirmal (2014). A Rag Called Happiness. Penguin.
Wengoborski, S., & Singh, J. (2013). Creating the city of Delhi: stories of strong women and weak walls. In Hans-Christian Peterson (Ed.) Spaces of the Poor. Perspectives of Cultural Sciences on Urban Slum Areas and Their Inhabitants. Transcript, pp.147-168