New Delhi’s “urban villages” are the result of government land acquisitions that began in 1912 and continued into the 1960s. Since the 1980s, growing demand for real estate within the city has engendered unprecedented residential and commercial development in these former agrarian areas. The consequences of this include structural changes in the built environment, shifts in the social make-up of the village, and new relationships with the municipal and planning authorities. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research between 2010 and 2015, this article examines Hauz Khas, an important archaeological site and urban village in New Delhi.