Romance Delhi in rains, far away from the madding crowds

The Isa Khan Tomb stands at the western end of the Humayun’s Tomb complex, almost at the centre of the Humayun’s Tomb – Sunder Nursery – Hazrat Nizamuddin Basti Project area. An exhaustive condition assessment, measured drawing, archival research and detailed on-site discussions with experts in 2010 have led to the preparation of a Conservation plan for this significant entrance zone to the World Heritage Site. Conservation works undertaken with support from the World Monuments Fund, include the restoration of the 16th century landscape of the Isa Khan’s Tomb enclosure, which commenced with the manual removal of thousands of truckloads of earth to restore this earliest known ‘sunken garden’.