India, May 3 -- Having defeated Ibrahim Lodi at Panipat, Babur did not proceed immediately to the Lodi capital at Agra. Instead, he stopped a few days at Delhi, which he referred to in his memoir, Baburnama, as the "capital of Hindustan". He was acutely aware that though Ibrahim Lodi's predecessor, his father Sikandar Lodi, had moved his capital to Agra a little over two decades earlier, Delhi had a long history as the capital of an empire: the Delhi Sultanate. The two cities would alternately serve as Mughal capitals, over the next 331 years. Delhi in particular, which was the seat of the Mughal dynasty in its last couple of centuries, still bears its stamp. The era of Mughal rule was a formative period in the culture of India, and one asp...