Capital: The Eruption of Delhi

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Epigraph from The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny © Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. Extract from “My Father the Builder” by Khushwant Singh, reproduced from the title Celebrating Delhi with due permission from the publisher, Penguin Books India and the Editor, Mala Dayal. Extract from The Other Side of Silence by Urvashi Butalia, reproduced with due permission from the publisher, Penguin Books India and the Editor, Mala Dayal. Extract from Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary by Veena Das, © 2007 by the Regents of the University of California. Published by the University of California Press. Extract from India After Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha, Copyright © 2007 by Ramachandra Guha, reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Chapter Seventeen epigraph, quoted from and reproduced by kind permission of Delhi Sultanate, rapper.