B. Fill in the blanks:
1. On 11th May 1857, the rebel sepoys reached......
2. Indian cities were divided into.........
3. Cantonment towns like...........
were built on European plan.
4. Edwin Lutyens and........were given the task of building the city of New.
Answers
Answer:
1. On May 11, 1857, as Indian sepoys who had revolted against the British in Meerut over the use of cartridges allegedly greased with pig and cow fat entered Delhi and tried to take control of the city, there was murder and mayhem in the initial hours.
2. Most cities of the Indus Valley civilisation were divided into two parts, i.e. the citadel and the lower town. Dholavira was different from most Indus cities as it was divided into three parts, i.e. the citadel, a middle town and a lower town. These parts were enclosed by stone walls.
3 . don't know
4 .Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens OM KCIE PRA FRIBA (/ˈlʌtjənz/; LUT-yənz; 29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944[2]) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses, war memorials and public buildings. In his biography, the writer Christopher Hussey wrote, "In his lifetime (Lutyens) was widely held to be our greatest architect since Wren if not, as many maintained, his superior".[3] The architectural historian Gavin Stamp described him as "surely the greatest British architect of the twentieth (or of any other) century".[4]