{"product_id":"the-sunday-book-bazaar-daryaganj-and-the-making-of-a-reading-public-in-delhi-9789363361850","title":"The Sunday Book Bazaar: Daryaganj and the Making Of a Reading Public in Delhi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Elegantly written... Should be mandatory reading for citizens of Delhi who wish to know their city better-even, or especially, those who do not buy or read books themselves.'-Ramachandra Guha\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery Sunday, in the heart of Old Delhi, a footpath became a bookshop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor decades, the Daryaganj Sunday Book Bazaar drew students, collectors, families, tourists and lifelong shauqeen to its pavement piles: textbooks, comics, rare editions, pirated bestsellers, forgotten magazines, discarded libraries, and books that seemed to find their readers by accident. Built by migrant booksellers, sustained by bargain-hunters and bibliophiles, and shaped by the rhythms of the street, the bazaar became one of Delhi's most beloved cultural institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Sunday Book Bazaar, Kanupriya Dhingra traces the life of this remarkable market-from its roots in the book cultures of Shahjahanabad and Daryaganj to its rise as a second-hand book paradise, and from its legal battles and evictions to its relocation in Mahila Haat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining urban history, fieldwork, memoir and literary affection, she follows the books, booksellers and readers who made the bazaar a parallel world of print: informal, unpredictable, deeply democratic, and impossible to replace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once urban history, ethnography, memoir, and a love letter to second-hand books, The Sunday Book Bazaar asks what makes a market more than a place of commerce. Who gets to read? Who gets to sell? Who gets to occupy public space? And what does a city lose when it tidies away the unruly, democratic spaces where its readers first learn to browse, bargain, linger and belong?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Speaking Tiger Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789363361850\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.74d","brand":"Kanupriya Dhingra","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53514335748277,"sku":"9789363361850","price":29.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9789363361850.jpg?v=1791903673","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-sunday-book-bazaar-daryaganj-and-the-making-of-a-reading-public-in-delhi-9789363361850","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}