Abdul Rahman Siddiqi

Abdul Rahman Siddiqi
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The book could have been appropriately sub-titled as 'Life in Pre-Partition Delhi (Dilli) Laid Bare'. It is, the first, and easily the last one of its kind by one of the vanishing breed of vintage ...

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