The Indian capital city of Delhi has a long history and has been an important political centre of India as the capital of several empires.

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Histrory Of Delhi
The Indian capital city of Delhi has a long history and has been an important political centre of India as
the capital of several empires. Much of Delhi’s ancient history finds no record and this may be regarded
as lost period of its history. Extensive coverage of Delhi’s history begins with the oneset the delhi of
Delhi Sultanate in the 12th
century. Since then Delhi has been the centre of a succession of word. It is
considered to be a city built, destroyed and rebuilt servel times, as outsider who successfully invaded
the Indian Indian Subcontinent would ransack the existing capital city in Delhi, and those who came
to conquer and stay would be so impressed by the city's strategic location as to make it their capital
and rebuild it in their own way.
References to Delhi’s history in ancient literature are based on myths and legends according to the
Hindu epic Mahabharata, a city called Indrapastha, “City Indra” of the God”
Top visits place in Delhi
• India Gate-The India Gate (original called the All India War Memorial ), is a war memorial
located astride the Rajpath , on the eastern edge of ‘ceremonial axis’ of New Delhi, India,
formerly called Kingsway. India Gate is a memorial to 82,000 soldiers of the Indian Army who
deid in the period 1914-21 in the First World War, In Frances , Flanders , Mesopotamia , Persia,

2. East Africa, Gallipoli and elsewhere in the Near and Far East, and the Third Anglo-Afghan War.
13,300 serviceman’s names including some soldiers and officers from the United Kingdom, are
inscribed on the gate. The India Gate, even though a war memorial, evokes the architectural
style of the triumphal arch like the Arch of Constantine, in Rome, and isnoften compared to the
Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and the Gateway of India in Mumbai.
It was designed by sir Edwin Lutyens.
• Red Fort- The Red Fort is a historical fort in the city of Delhi in India. It was the main
residence of the Mughal dynasty for nearly 200 years, until 1857. It is located in the center of
Delhi and houses a number of museums . In addition to accommandating the emperors and
their households, it was the ceremonial and political center of the Mughal state and the setting
for events critically impacting the region.

3. Constructed in the 1639 by the fifth Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan as the palace of his fortified capital
Shahjahanabad , the Red Fort is named for its massive enclosing walls of red sandstone and is adjacent
to the older Salimgarh Fort, built by Islam Shah Suri in 1546. The imperial apartments consist of a row of
pavilions, connected by a water channel know as the stream of Paradise. The fort complex is considered
to represent the zenith of Mughal creativity under Shah Jahan, and buildings that reflect a fusion of
Timurid and Persian traditions.
The fort was plundered of its artwork and jewels during Nadir Shah’s invasion of the Mughal Empire in
1747. Most of the fort’s precious marble structures were subsequently destroyed by the british
following the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857.
Qutub Minar-Qutub Minar is a minaret that forms part of the Qutb complex a UNESCO World
Heritage Site in the Mehrauli area of Delhi, India Made of red sandstone and marble, Qutub Minar is
a 73-metre (240 feet) tall tapering tower of five storeys, with a 14.3 metre (47 feet) base diameter,
reducing to 2.7 metres (9 feet) at the peak.It contains a spiral staircase of 379 steps. Its design is
thought to have been based on the Minaret of Jam, in western Afghanistan.

4. Qutb al-Din Aibak founder of the Delhi Sultanate. Started construction of the Qutub Minar's first
storey around 1192. In 1220 Aibak’s successor and son-in-law Iltutmish completed a further three
storeys. In 1369, a lightning strike destroyed the top storey. Firoz Shah Tughlaq replaced the
damaged storey, and added one more.
The Minar is surrounded by several historically significant monuments of the Qutb complex
including Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque. which was built at the same time as the Minar, and the much
older Iron Pillar of Delhi. The nearby pillared Cupola known as "Smith's Folly" is a remnant of the
tower's 19th century restoration, which included an ill-advised attempt to add a sixth storey.
• Humayun’s Tomb- Humayun’s Tomb (Maqbara e Humayun) is the tomb of
the Mugha Emprer Humayun in Delhi , India. The tomb was commissioned by Humayun's
first wife and chief consort, Empress Bega Begum (also known as Haji Begum), in 1569-70,
and designed by Mirak Mirza Ghiyas, a Persian architect chosen by her.It was the first
garden-tomb on the Indian subcontinent , and is located in Nizamuddin East, Delhi, India,
close to the Dina-panah Citadel, also known as Purana Qila(Old Fort), that Humayun
founded in 1533. It was also the first structure to use red sandstone at such a scale.

5. The tomb was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1993 and since then has undergone
extensive restoration work, which is complete. Besides the main tomb enclosure of Humayun,
several smaller monuments dot the pathway leading up to it, from the main entrance in the West,
including one that even pre-dates the main tomb itself, by twenty years; it is the tomb complex of Isa
khan Niyazi, an Afghan noble in Sher Shah Suri’s court of the Suri dynasty who fought against
the Mughels constructed in 1547 CE.
The complex encompasses the main tomb of the Emperor Humayun, which houses the graves of
Bega Begum herself, Hamida Begum, and also Dara Shikoh. great-great-grandson of Humayun and
son of the later Emperor Shah Jahan. as well as numerous other subsequent Mughals, including
Emperor Jahandar Shah,Farrukhsiyar,Rafi Ul-Darjat,Rafi Ud-Daulat, Muhammad Kam Bakhsh
and Alamgir It represented a leap in Mughal architecture. and together with its

6. accomplished Charbagh garden, typical of Persian gardens, but never seen before in India, it set a
precedent for subsequent Mughal architecture. It is seen as a clear departure from the fairly modest
mausoleum of his father, the first Mughal Emperor, Babur, called Bagh-e Babur (Gardens of Babur)
in Kabul (Afghanistan). Though the latter was the first Emperor to start the tradition of being buried in
a paradise garden Modelled on Gur-e Amir, the tomb of his ancestor and Asia's conqueror Timur,
in Samarkand, it created a precedent for future Mughal architecture of royal mausolea, which
reached its zenith with the Taj Mahal, At Agra.

7. accomplished Charbagh garden, typical of Persian gardens, but never seen before in India, it set a
precedent for subsequent Mughal architecture. It is seen as a clear departure from the fairly modest
mausoleum of his father, the first Mughal Emperor, Babur, called Bagh-e Babur (Gardens of Babur)
in Kabul (Afghanistan). Though the latter was the first Emperor to start the tradition of being buried in
a paradise garden Modelled on Gur-e Amir, the tomb of his ancestor and Asia's conqueror Timur,
in Samarkand, it created a precedent for future Mughal architecture of royal mausolea, which
reached its zenith with the Taj Mahal, At Agra.