OLD DELHI---2011
History is too vivid, but just 64 years back in 1947 at the time
of India gets Independence from colonial British rule, old Delhi has seen the
communal rights, death of friends and family, partition looting and what not.
Old Delhi is the best habitat surrounding near river Yamuna which has attracted
human existence for 2000 years as per historical facts evaluable. But people say,
it has inhabitant back from 5000 years..
But for me, it is place where Delhi lives and ruled, exploited, first
railway station, first hospital and market place of the city, river and lot of
people and houses. Above all the birth place of INDIAN CUISINE, great mogul food
and restaurants.
This seems to be my last posting in this year
of 2011.New Delhi. Where, I was born and brought up. But old Delhi remains the
center point of my life, my city, my country and billions of people around
world those belongs to India.
2011---OLD DELHI---Narrow streets, wholesale
market ,oldest mosque JAMA MASSJID,RED FORT and old Delhi railway station. We
know that much that old Delhi is the best place to remember history and place
where every one can have work and food to eat.
Shahjahanabad, the walled city built by
Shah Jahan from 1638 to 1649, containing the Lal Qila and the Chandni Chowk. It was the capital of the Mughal Empire during Shah Jahan's reign. It is
presently referred to as "Old Delhi".
The third and greatest Mughal emperor, Akbar,
moved the capital to Agra, resulting in a decline in the fortunes
of Delhi. In the mid-seventeenth century, the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan (1628–1658) built the city that
sometimes bears his name Shahjahanabad, the
seventh city of Delhi that is more commonly known as the old city or old Delhi.
This city contains a number of significant architectural features, including
the Red Fort (Lal Qila) and the Jama Masjid.
The old city served as the capital of the later Mughal Empire from 1638
onwards, when Shah Jahan transferred the capital back from Agra. Aurangzeb (1658–1707) crowned himself as
emperor in Delhi in 1658 at the Shalimar garden
('Aizzabad-Bagh) with a second coronation in 1659. Nader Shah defeated the Mughal army at the
huge Battle of Karnal
in February 1739. After this victory, Nader captured and sacked Delhi.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Delhi
Location of Delhi in
India
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Country
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Delhi
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Mayor
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Rajni Abbi (BJP)
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Legislature
(seats)
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Unicameral (70)
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Population
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HDI (2005)
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 0.875 (very high) |
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1483 km2 (573 sq mi)
• 239 metres (784 ft)[3]
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Seal of Delhi
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Delhi /ˈdɛli/,
locally pronounced as Dilli (Hindi: दिल्ली, Punjabi: ਦਿੱਲੀ, Urdu: دِلّی) or
Dehli (Hindi: देहली, Urdu: دهلی),
officially National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT), is the largest
metropolis by area and the second-largest
metropolis by population in India.
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Shahjahanabad (Old Delhi)
Still surrounded by crumbling city walls and three surviving
gates, the vibrant, bustling Shahjahanabad, built over a period of 10 years by
Emperor Shah Jahan, is very much a separate city -- predominantly a labyrinth
of tiny lanes crowded with rickshaws, and lined with 17th-century havelis
(Indian mansions), their balustrades broken and once-ornate facades defaced
with rusted signs and sprouting satellite dishes. Old Delhi is inhabited by a
predominantly Muslim population whose lives revolve around work and the local
mosque, much as it was a century ago.
LOVE TO THIS CITY….
BY Shailesh Sharma Pokhrial
New Delhi,may be down town palce called Dawrka
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