SHREYA’S PURSUIT
India’s City Secrets
Understanding the cities that built modern India.
★ AN OMAHAINDIA ORIGINAL ★
Seven marshy islands became Mumbai. A city with nothing to ship became Bengaluru. Shreya asks the same question of one Indian city per book — why here, why this trade, and what did the people who turned up make of the ground they were given?
SHREYA’S PURSUIT
🗺️ A place on the map → ⚓ a reason to stop → 🧑🤝🧑 people who turned up → 🧵 a trade → 🏙️ a city → 🇮🇳 a country
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“I thought I was visiting a city. I was actually discovering how a city was built.” · Books 1 and 2 are free.
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Mumbai
The City That Made Its Own Land
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Bengaluru
The City With Nothing To Ship
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Book 3
Chennai
The City That Argued With the Sea
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Book 4
Hyderabad
The City That Chose Its Own Luck
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Ahmedabad
The City That Paid For Itself
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Book 6
Pune
The City That Refused To Be A Suburb
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Book 7
Surat
The City That Lost Everything Twice
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Book 8
Kolkata
The City That Was Un-Made
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Book 9
Delhi
The City That Decides Things
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Book 10
Visakhapatnam
The City Where The Water Is Deep
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Book 11
Jaipur
The City That Was Drawn First
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Book 12
Kochi
The Port That Outlived Its Buyers
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Book 13
Coimbatore
The Town That Built The Machines
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Book 14
Indore
The City That Empties The Bins
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Book 15
Mysuru
The Kingdom That Paid For Somebody Else
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Book 16
Kanpur
The City That Came Down Slowly
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Book 17
Ludhiana
Ten Thousand Small Workshops
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Book 18
Guwahati
The Only Way Through
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Book 19
Lucknow
The City Whose Customer Left
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Book 20
Nagpur
The City In The Middle Of Everywhere
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Book 21
Vadodara
The State That Bought Schools First
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Book 22
Bhubaneswar
The City That Keeps Two Calendars
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Book 23
Thiruvananthapuram
The City That Spent It On People
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Book 24
Patna
The Capital That The River Left
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Book 25
Chandigarh
The City That Was Drawn First
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