Tour Overview

Long before Hauz Khas became synonymous with cafés and nightlife, it was the intellectual and hydraulic heart of Siri, Delhi’s second medieval city.

Built around a vast reservoir, this landscape once sustained scholars, saints, nobles, and everyday residents — where water, learning, and death shaped urban life.

Beyond the Lights of Hauz Khas is a slow, immersive guided walk through forgotten domes, secluded tombs, ruined pavilions, and the edges of the Hauz — restoring attention to the area’s original purpose as a Sultanate city of water, knowledge, and memory.

This is not the Hauz Khas you know.
It is the Hauz Khas that existed before noise.

Places Covered

1. Hauz Khas Fort

Ruins overlooking the great reservoir built by Alauddin Khalji.
Guided focus: Siri as a planned city, water management, Sultanate ambition.

2. Bagh-i-Alam ka Gumbad

A quiet domed tomb set within green surroundings.
Guided focus: funerary landscapes and garden symbolism.

3. Kali Gumti

A stark, almost severe tomb structure.
Guided focus: simplicity, anonymity, and forgotten patrons.

4. Tohfe Wala Gumbad

A lesser-known tomb with layered architectural detail.
Guided focus: stylistic transitions and regional influences.

5. Chhoti Gumti & Sakri Gumti

Small, scattered tombs often overlooked entirely.
Guided focus: density of burial, social hierarchy, everyday remembrance.

6. Barah Khamba

A twelve-pillared structure once part of a larger funerary or pavilion complex.
Guided focus: open architecture, space, and pause.

7. Beeran ka Gumbad

A modest but evocative structure.
Guided focus: local memory, naming, and oral history.

8. Dadi–Poti’s Tomb

A rare double tomb, intimate and human in scale.
Guided focus: family, gendered memory, and tenderness within Sultanate landscapes.