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From Shah Jahan’s court to the present: Tales of a dying trade from Delhi’s last deed writer

March 16, 2020 Vijaya Pushkarna

Satya Narain Saxena, the tenth generation of a family of legal deed writers, is today the last surviving document writer of Delhi. His family history goes back to the times of emperor Shah Jahan while some of his ancestors were in Maharaja Jai Singh’s court in Amer. 85-plus Saxena regales us with his stories »

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