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Gwalior is not only made up of its fort and palaces, but also of its smaller, less visible geographies — its lanes and neighbourhoods that continue to shape everyday life in the city. These spaces, often overlooked in formal histories, offer a different way of reading the city: through its people,…
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When we turn to the history of a city such as Gwalior, narratives tend to coalesce around its monumental architecture — its fort, palaces, and temples — structures that articulate the authority and aspirations of ruling elites. This emphasis produces what may be described as a vertical…
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When one thinks of India’s narrow-lane railways or tram-like tracks winding through marketplaces and grazing past fields, the mind almost instinctively travels to Calcutta (now Kolkata) or perhaps the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. The Calcutta trams rattling through Chowringhee and across Maidan…
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