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The aim of Delhi Historical Map Project (DHMP) is to visualize the spatial geography narrated in a series of Persian and Urdu accounts of “Old Delhi” (established as Shahjahanabad in 1639) from the 19th century onto a contemporary (1850) map of Old Delhi. In Shahjahanabad/Old Delhi: Tradition and Colonial Change (1993), Ekart Ehlers and Thomas Krafft reconstituted an 1850 hand-drawn and hand- colored map of Delhi of an unusual scale and detail – it was 100 by 100 cm and contained in-depth notation of key buildings, monuments and neighborhoods. This hand-drawn map was painstakingly reproduced by Gerd Storbeck. As such, this map represents a crucial cartographical source for the scholars and researchers. Our goal is to use this map as a basis of visualizing 200 years of cultural and social history of Delhi – by incorporating information contained within historical texts, illustrations and photographs onto the space demarcated within the map. Read more : http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/univercity/a_delhi_digital_project.html and http://www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/aktuelles/POSTERa4.pdf