Question

Write a note on shajahanbad at delhi

Answer 1

Shahjahanabad today is Old Delhi. The greater part of Old

Delhi is still confined within the space of Shah Jahān’s walls, and several

gates built during his rule—the Kashmiri Gate, the Delhi Gate, the Turkman

Gate, and the Ajmeri Gate—still stand.

With the fall of the Mughal Empire during the mid-18th

century, Delhi faced raids by the Marathas (a people of peninsular India),

invasion by Nāder Shah of Persia, and a brief spell of Maratha rule before the

British arrived in 1803. Under British rule the city flourished—except during

the Indian Mutiny in 1857, when the mutineers seized the city for several

months, after which British power was restored and Mughal rule ended. In 1911

the British determined to shift the capital of India from Calcutta (Kolkata) to

Delhi, and a three-member committee was formed to plan the construction of the

new administrative centre. The key architect on the committee was Sir Edwin

Lutyens; it was he who gave shape to the city. The British moved to the

partially built New Delhi in 1912, and construction was completed in 1931.

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