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Published: November 14th 2018
I have always wanted to go on a pilgrimage to India - it was here that my great grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Allen was born in 1870 and lived in the country until the early 1900s. Her parents were James Allen who was a military man and Elizabeth Moore but I do not have any information on them apart from their names, although a ‘family story’ said that Elizabeth (nee Moore) was in some way rel...
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Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro
The forgotten cultural gem of India
Thanks for telling me about Old and New Delhi and bringing back some memories from my own visits there. There are many well known gems in India. For instance Qutub Minar, Taj Mahal, Golden Temple of Amritsar and on and on and on. But next time I go to India I am going to spend some time trying to locate an almost completely forgotten cultural gem - the stairwells. There are maybe a thousand of these scattered all over India. Most have been abandoned and some of them are in bad repair or more or less ruined. But there are also maybe hundreds which each is an architectural masterpiece. /Ake