But if you actually lived in Delhi at that time, within the narrow streets and massive walls of Shahjahanbad, three generations of your family would very likely be suffering from PTSD.
For a family living in Shahjahanbad in the late 1700s, the grandparents would remember seeing the streets strewn with 30,000 bodies after one day of Nadir Shah Afshar's massacre.
Middle-aged parents would have experienced the massacre of Shia muslims by the Afghan Ahmad Shah Abdali,
and the children would remember Ghulam Qadir and stories of what despicable things he did to the women of the palace before blinding the Emperor Shah Alam.
Three generations of trauma in one family.
For a long time, the streets remained strewn with corpses, as the walks of a garden with dead leaves and flowers.
~ Tazkira of Anand Ram Mukhlis