City Walk – Paharai Rajaan, Old Delhi Walks by The Delhi Walla - September 24, 20220 The hill of the workers [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Who made Taj Mahal? Shah Jahan. No, who actually raised the Taj, stone by stone? Nobody knows. History is mute on the labourers who built the monument. Ditto for Old Delhi’s Red Fort, and Jama Masjid. The one thing you can do is walk in a locality that derives its name from those labourers. “Pahari Rajaan was a pahari (hill) that initially had the houses of raj mistri (labourer), who were building the Jama Masjid and the Lal Qila,” says Naseer-ul-Hassan, who lives in an old house perched at the mouth of Pahari. This lane in Chitli Qabar Chowk goes up a slope, rummaging through a dense web of shops