How did the british saw the overcrowded shahjahanabad?
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(b) The two architects who designed New Delhi and Shahjahanabad were ____ and ______. (c) The British saw overcrowded spaces as ______. (d) In 1888 an extension
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At the centre of this settlement was Qila-i-Mubarak (Red Fort), the palace-fortress. The city was encircled with a wall with 14 gates, from where Shahjahanabad gets its sobriquet of Walled City.
On April 19, 1648, Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal emperor, first stepped into the Diwan-e-Khas, or the Hall of Special Audience in the newly completed Qila-e-Mubarak or the Red Fort. The occasion called for a grand celebration. A great velvet canopy stood in the fort’s courtyard, halls were decked with silks from Turkey and China. Shah Jahan sat on a raised throne, awarding gifts and ranks to his nobles.
For more than 30 years, Shahjahanabad thrived, not only as the capital of the Mughal empire, but as a centre of culture, where art, poetry, music, artisanship all flourished. “Shahjahanabad was a statement of a way of life achieved after many centuries”, writes Shama Mitra Chenoy, a professor of history at Delhi University in her book, Shahjahanabad: A City of Delhi 1638-1857.
The present-day Shahjahanabad is a tableau of chaos, bursting at the seams with people. More than the dilapidated buildings, the traffic jams, unauthorised construction and crumbling infrastructure show how Shah Jahan’s meticulously planned city, once known for its splendour, was undone by apathy and a lack of planning.