Making New Delhi.

It was only after the great revolt of 1857 that the British realised the true important of Delhi. 

The British were of the view that Delhi should forget its Mughal past. A part of the shahjahanabad city was demolished, and its canals where filled up. In the 1870s    the Western walls of the city where partially demoralized to establish the railway And to allow the City to expand beyond the walls. The British came to you live in the sprawling civil lines area that came up in the north. It was away from the Indians in the walled city.       

In 1877s , viceroy Laytton organised a grand darbar to  acknowledged Queen Victoria as the empress of India. This was done in order to assert their growing power in a city which was earlier ruled by the Mughal emperors. It was also done to Assert
 there supremacy in a city which was the the centre of the the 1857 rebellion.  
               
           

In 1991, another darbar was held in Delhi to celebrate king George V's coronation in England. It was at this darbar that the decision to shift the capital of British India from Kolkata to Delhi was announced.

                           

Around 25 square kilometre area was selected on on Raisina Hill, where the viceroy palace rashtrapati Bhavan was built on the south of the existing City, to develop New Delhi. Two architects, Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker, were that task of designing the new city and its building. the road which is known as rajpath is a long stretch, flanked by lawns and fountains. the main government complex was built along this two-Mile stretch, having a structure such as India gate, Parliament House, the secretariat building ( now the North and South blocks). at one end of this road lies the rashtrapati Bhavan.

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