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Ordinary petitioners got their hearing in this hall. The emperor sat in the marble canopy set into the eastern wall, his prime minister took petitions from…
Shah Jahan received courtiers and state guests in this hall of marble piers, 90 by 67 feet, and what stands now is the frame of that room rather than the room…
Humayun's Tomb in Delhi was the first grand Mughal garden-tomb in India, built in the 1560s for Emperor Humayun by his widow Empress Bega Begum.
India Gate is a 42-metre war memorial arch on the ceremonial Kartavya Path, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and completed in 1931.
The fourth city of Delhi is less a site than a set of leftovers.
The Jama Masjid of Delhi, built by Shah Jahan in 1656, is one of the largest mosques in India.
Thirteen instruments, no lenses. Sawai Jai Singh built these to read the sky with the naked eye and to correct the calendar and the astronomical tables, and…
Asia's largest wholesale spice market, trading since the 17th century, on the road that runs west off the end of Chandni Chowk beside the Fatehpuri Masjid, a…
This is the way in, and the argument about it is centuries old: Aurangzeb pushed a barbican out in front of the gate, and his father, writing from house…
The Lotus Temple is a Baha'i House of Worship and one of Delhi's most photographed modern landmarks, shaped like a half-open lotus with 27 marble-clad petals…
A semi-octagonal tower on the fort's eastern wall, joined to the Khwabgah of the Khas Mahal, this is where the emperor showed himself to his subjects each…
The Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah is the shrine of the great Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya, one of Delhi's most atmospheric spiritual sites.
Delhi calls it Lohe-ka-Pul, the iron bridge, and it has been carrying traffic since 1867.
Purana Qila — the Old Fort — is the citadel begun by Humayun as Dinpanah and completed by Sher Shah Suri, standing on a mound long identified in tradition…
Qutb Minar is the centrepiece of a UNESCO World Heritage complex in south Delhi, and at 73 metres it remains the tallest brick minaret in the world.
Seventeen years of building, from 1912 to 1929, produced 340 rooms and two and a half kilometres of corridor at the top of Raisina Hill.
The Red Fort (Lal Qila) is a massive red-sandstone Mughal fortress-palace in Old Delhi, built as the residence of the Mughal emperors and the seat of the…
Safdarjung's Tomb is a garden-tomb built around 1754 for Safdarjung, the powerful Nawab of Awadh and a prime minister of the Mughal empire.
What was an island in the Yamuna in 1546 is dry ground now, and the fort Salim Shah Suri raised on it sits inside the Red Fort Complex.
Iltutmish buried his eldest son here in 1233, and the result reads more like a small fort than a tomb: a walled enclosure with bastions at the corners, built…
Tughlaqabad is the colossal abandoned third city of Delhi, built by Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq in the 1320s and deserted within years — blamed by legend on the curse…
This wall carries the names of Sikhs killed in the 1984 riots that followed Indira Gandhi's assassination.
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