Mukul Kesavan: Growing up in Lutyens’ Delhi – an urban history in anecdotes

What happened: Mukul Kesavan describes using his memories of living in several Delhi neighbourhoods as anecdotal evidence for an urban history of the city's salariat, from Kashmiri Gate through sarkari neighbourhoods to south Delhi colonies. Why it matters: He frames the recollections as a way to examine the taken-for-granted world he inhabited and to explain the nature of his privilege as part of a social sliver of Delhi from 1962 to the present.

Mukul Kesavan describes using his memories of living in several Delhi neighbourhoods as anecdotal evidence for an urban history of the city's salariat, from Kashmiri Gate through sarkari neighbourhoods to south Delhi colonies.

He frames the recollections as a way to examine the taken-for-granted world he inhabited and to explain the nature of his privilege as part of a social sliver of Delhi from 1962 to the present.