India, Aug. 17 -- Delhi's settlement history has followed a discernible logic in which particular communities converge around shared origin, profession, or exile -- a pattern legible across the city's 20th-century colonies. Judges settled around Niti Bagh, journalists around Gulmohar Park. Mayfair Garden belongs to this pattern but complicates it, since the community that formed it -- Sindhi families -- built its houses around a monument that predates the colony by half a millennium: the Makhdum Sabzwari mosque and dargah, a Lodi-period foundation that the neighbourhood has had to live with, negotiate around, and in some measure be shaped by. A colony that grows up around a protected monument inhabits its history differently from one that d...