write in detail about feature of new city of delhi developed by the british .name the architect and town planner who planned the city. urgent plzz
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New Delhi was constructed as a 10 - square - mile city on Raisina Hill, south of the existing city. Two architects, Edward Lutyens and Herbert Baker, ... More
Imperial Delhi: How the British built a ‘New Delhi’ at the cost of the old
Kashmere Gate, which stands near the Bada Bazar in north Delhi, bears the scars of cannonballs that rained down on it more than a hundred years ago.
During the ghadar (mutiny) of 1857, Indian sepoys and citizens rose against the East India Company and seized Delhi. For three months, the rebels held the city against the British cavalry, who fired canons at the gate, attempting to breach its walls and lay claim to Delhi. As summer gave way to September, Kashmere Gate fell to the British, and with it, the rest of Delhi.
The sacking of the city that followed marked the end of Mughal Delhi and the inauguration of the Delhi of the Raj. Today, in the modern Delhi, those who look find stray remnants of the city’s most recent reincarnation all around them: in government buildings, in the colonnades of Connaught Place, in the names of roads or the grandeur of university offices. But the pockmarked walls of Kashmere Gate, Delhi’s modern ruins, also attest to loss and violence, showing that the transition from one version of Delhi to the next has usually followed a fight.
The British Terror
As its name suggests, the Khooni Darwaza (Blood Gate), an archway near the better-known Delhi Gate, has witnessed the horrors of several Delhis. In 1659, Dara Shikhoh’s head was displayed hung from the arch of the gate after his brother Aurangzeb had him executed. More recently, in 1947, hundreds of refugees were killed here in the post-Partition riots. In 2002, the gate gained notoriety again after a young medical student was gang raped at knife point on the terrace of the monument.
A new Delhi
After the British ransacked Delhi, the city’s anatomy was carefully rearranged to suit its new masters. In today’s quiet, leafy Civil Lines, the British created a city within a city for themselves.
Most government buildings and educational institutions in this area have a connection to the violence of 1857. The imposing residence of the vice chancellor of Delhi University, with its ballrooms and majestic pillars, was the vice-regal lodge, which the British attacked during the siege to save their captive compatriots.
Though Civil Lines had been a British neighbourhood since the early 1800s, allowing colonialists to live close to the cantonment at the northern Ridge, it became the centre of local British residential life after 1857. Only Brits could own property, and only Brits could buy alcohol at Spencer’s or Carlton House — shops that stood in what is now Kashmere Gate market — or enjoy a soiree at Civil Lines’ Maidens Hotel, which is one of the city’s oldest hotels.
This new city became a rival for resources to the walled city of the Delhiwallas. When a new water supply system was conceived, Civil Lines got its own open drain at Salimgarh. The whole of Shahjahanabad, with thrice the population, was serviced by a single drain at Delhi Gate.
EDWIN LUTYENS
EDWIN LUTYENS, the Edwardian architect who planned New Delhi nearly a century ago, intended it to serve as a grand imperial capital capable of holding its own against Washington or Paris.