As you are reading and discovering about our first stop, the fascinating and complex Delhi, i thought it would be a good idea to step by step write our discoveries down...
Here, now, the successive cities today called Delhi:
NAME BUILT BY DATES
- Indraprastha Pandava brothers 1500-1000 BC
- Dhillika Tomar Rajput VIII century
- Qila Rai Pithora Prithviraja III Chauan end of XII century
- Siri Ala-ud-Din Khilji XIV century
- Tughluqabad Ghiyas-ud-Din 1321-1323
- Jahanpanah Mohammed Tughluq 1325-1351
- Firoz Shah Kotla Firoz Shah Tughluq 1351-1388
- Purana Qila Sher Shah Suri 1540-1545
- Shahjahanabad Shah Jahan 1638-1648
- New Delhi British Empire 1920-1930
Those cities (which make one) had different locations, starting with Indraprastha, a modest city by the Yamuna river built by the hindu brothers Pandava, then moving south during the Rajput Dynasties, before slowly ascending north.
It is interesting to know that the capital has been moved away from Delhi several times; the first being in 1504, when Sikandar Lodi (2nd ruler of the Afghan Lodi Dynasty), in reaction to the difficulties Delhi was encountering after the death of Firoz and the brutal invasion lead by Timur, decided to set himself in Agra.
We will go to Agra on our 3rd day.
In 1638, after 80 years of desertion, Shah Jahan decides to go back to Delhi.
Delhi becomes the Empire capital, and the construction of Shahjahanabad begins.
In Delhi, we will be staying in the north, not far from Shahjahanabad, now called Old Delhi and we will walk its intricate streets on our first afternoon.
more Dehli maps here
more Dehli maps here
More soon.... you are obviously welcome to comment/add etc.
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