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Case Study About New Delhi...

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Answer 1

New Delhi ties for first place along with Beijing ,China,for having the world's worst air. New Delhi is one of the India's most important cities considering the fact that it is India's capital.

Answer 2

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Delhi, one of the few cities of the world that has been continous occupation for over 1000 years, has always attracted prospective rulers because of its strategic geographic location - it serves as a link between Central Asia, the north-west frontier, and the rest of India. Delhi has seen the rise and fall of countless empires.

Indraprastha, the capital of the Pandavas, is believed to have been located here. An Ashoka inscription says that Delhi was on the greatest national highway of the Mauryas, and linked their capital Pataliputra (near Patna) with Taxila, now in Pakistan.

Between the 13th and 17th centuries, successive dynasties of the Delhi Sultans and the Mughals ruled from Delhi. Babur and Humayun retained Delhi as their capital. Though Akbar shifted his capital to Fathehpur Sikri, Shah Jahan shifted it back to Delhi. The Marathas wrested control of Delhi from the Mughals in the late 18th century. In 1803, passed into the hands of the British from Marathas. The city is full of the remains of the imposing monuments built here by the Delhi Sultans and the Mughals.

In 1911, the British shifted their capital from Calcutta to Delhi. They built an entirely new city here, and called it New Delhi. The earlier cities of Delhi now came to be called Old Delhi. The architecture of New Delhi was the crowing glory of the British Raj.

The architectures of this new city were Edwin Luytens and Herbert Baker. Luytens was specifically directed by the Viceroy to 'harmonise externally with the traditions of Indian art'. So the buildings of New Delhi were made of the red sandstone and included features like domes,chhatris (kiosks), and jalis (trellised windows).

They designed a beautifully symmetrical city with the President's Palace (now Rashtrapati Bhavan) atop Raisina Hill at the centre, and the city spreading out on all sides.

There were office buildings on either side of the President's Palace, like mirror images. The secretariat building, and buildings that housed different offices, were on either side of the main road, then called King's Way (now Raj Path). At the other end of Raj Path was India Gate, built in memory of the British soldiers who died during World War I . To the left of the Viceroys House was the Council Chamber (what is now called Parliament House), a circular structure with three semicircular areas.

Connaught Palace, at the centre of the city, was part of Luytens beautiful design. The old, historically important sites of medieval India were beautifully blended with the modern ones to produce a unified effect. The famous Jantar Mantar of Sawai Madho Singh of Jaipur merges with the modern Connaught Palace. Humayun's tomb, Purana Qila, Qutub Minar and the Hazrat Nizamuddin were all made to be a part of New Delhi. Broad tree- lined roads, gracious public buildings, fountains and parks characterised British Delhi.

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