Sightseeing At New Delhi
New Delhi's present position as capital was confirmed on 12 December 1911, when Emperor George V announced at the Delhi Durbar that the capital of Inda was to move from Kolkata to Delhi in 1911. It was intended as an emphatic statement of the permamnence of British rule in India. To design a grand capital ta New Delhi, the British architect Edwin Lutyens, set about to convert a dusty landscape into one of the greenest capitals in the world. A certain architectural homogeneity was maintianed in most of the buildings - western architecture with an oriental motif was adopted.
Standing on the west bank of the Jamuna river for over 2000 years, Delhi has commmanded the strategiacally vital route from the North West frontier to the agriculturally rich Ganga plains. Great Mughal buildings remain - Humayun's Tomb, the Red Fort and the Jama Masjid are among the most spectacular remnants of great Muslim dynasty.
In the triumphant late colonial architecture of British built New Delhi, India's capital buildings testify to the city's renewed strategic importnace. The new city was inagurated on 9th February 1931.
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