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Shahjahanabad built by Shah Jahan consisted of a fort-palace complex and the city adjoining it. To the west of Red Fort lay the Walled City with 14 ga...
The Indian capital city of New Delhi has a long history, and has served as the capital city of several empires. 1. “Dilli” was the Tomar Rajput capi...
Colonial India was divided into 3 “Presidencies” for administrative purposes. Calcutta, Bombay and Madras were the 3 Presidencies which rose in import...
(i) The above picture reminds us of the Coronation Durbar of King George V. (ii) This important event took place on 12 December 1911. (iii) The de...
(i) The above picture is of Bombay port that existed in the 18th century. (ii) The city of Bombay began to grow when the East India Company started ...
(i) In 1739, Nadir Shah sacked and plundered the city of Delhi. (ii) Mir Taqi Mir is an eighteenth-century Urdu poet. He is one of the unfortunate p...
The Census of 1931 revealed that the Walled City area was densely populated with as many as 90 persons per acre, while New Delhi had only about 10 per...
New Delhi was constructed as a 10-square-mile city on Raisina Hill, south of the existing city. Two architects namely Edward Lutyens and Herbert Baker...
The main features of the colonial bungalow: It was meant for one nuclear family. It was a large single-storyed structure with a pitched roof and ...
Havelis were grand mansions in which the Mughal aristocracy in the 17th and 18th centuries lived.A haveli housed many families. On entering the haveli...
The partition caused massive transfer of populations on both sides of the new border. Muslims left Delhi for Pakistan while their place was taken by e...
During the Revolt of 1857, the rebels gathered in the Delhi and captured it under the leadership of the Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar. Delhi remai...
In Presidency cities, Bombay, Madras and Calcutta, the living spaces of Indians and the British were sharply separated. Indians lived in the “black" a...
Main features are given below: Shahjahanabad, that was began in 1639, consisted of a fort-palace complex and the city adjoining it. Lai Qua or the...
It was because the British shifted their trade to the new ports of Bombay, Madras and Calcutta.
The Census of 1931 revealed that the Walled City area was thickly populated with as many as 90 persons per acre, while New Delhi had only about 3 pers...
Havelis were grand mansions in which the Mughal aristocracy in the 17th and 18th century lived.
They took up jobs as hawkers, vendors, carpenters and ironsmiths.
The Viceroy’s Palace was higher than Shah Jahan’s Jama Masjid in order to establish British importance.
It is now known as Rajpath.