History of delhi

2.  Early history
 8th century to 16th century
 16th century to 19th century
 Twentieth century

3. Early history :
 The recorded history of Delhi begins from 900 B.C.
when it finds mention in Mahabharata .
 It is said that the Kauravas gifted barren land west of
Yamuna to Pandavas who transformed this to found their
capital, Indraprastha.
 Hindu texts state that the city of Delhi used to be
referred to in Sanskrit as Hastinapur, which means
"elephant-city".

4. 8th century to 16th century :
 The Tomar Rajputs came to rule
Delhi in the seventh and the eighth
centuries .They established city
named Lal Kot where Qutab Minar
stands today .
 The Tomars ruled for almost a
century till the Chauhan Rajput
kings of Ajmer conquered Lal Kot
in 1180 and renamed it Qila Rai
Pithora. The Chauhan king
Prithviraj III was defeated in 1192
by the Afghan Muhammad Ghori.

5.  In 1526, following the First Battle of Panipat,
Zahiruddin Babur, the former ruler of Fergana,
defeated the last Lodhi sultan and founded the
Mughal dynasty which ruled from Delhi, Agra and
Lahore.

6. 16th century to 19th century :
 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 with the Red Fort and the Jama Masjid.

7.  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 .

8. Twentieth century :
 Shortly after the Great Indian Mutiny of 1857, Calcutta
was declared the capital of British India but in 1911 the
capital was again moved to Delhi.
 As the Britishers shifted their capital from Calcutta to
Delhi, all the activities during the freedom struggle
were directed towards Delhi. Thus, Delhi also bears the
marks of the freedom struggle. It was the hosting of the
tricolour at Red Fort in Delhi, which marked a chapter
in the history of India.

9.  In 1950, Delhi was made the capital of
Independent India and in 1992 it was declared a
state.

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