Old Delhi (redirect from Shahjahanabad)
Delhi, India. It was founded as a walled city and officially named Shahjahanabad in 1648, when Shah Jahan decided to shift the Mughal capital from Agra...
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Syed Abdul Ghafoor Shah Bukhari. Situated in the Mughal capital of Shahjahanabad (today Old Delhi), it served as the imperial mosque of the Mughal emperors...
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from the city of Akbarabad), and commissioned the Akbarabadi Mosque in Shahjahanabad (present-day Old Delhi). Less commonly, she is also referred to as Sirhindi...
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The market's history dates to the founding of the capital city of Shahjahanabad when Emperor Shah Jahan established the Red Fort on the banks of the...
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settling in Delhi in 1803, they found the walls of Old Delhi city, Shahjahanabad lacking repairs, especially after the siege by Maratha Holkar in 1804...
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Yamuna river. Raj Ghat was the name of a location of historic ghat in Shahjahanabad in Old Delhi on the west bank of the Yamuna River east of Daryaganj...
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Portion of city wall of the walled city of Shahjahanabad, Ansari Road, Daryaganj...
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center for backpackers. In the years after its establishment in 1638, Shahjahanabad, the capital of the Mughal Empire under Shah Jahan, was no longer contained...
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24 December 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2022. Bhattacharya, Bibek. "Shahjahanabad, 1857". Archived from the original on 26 December 2019. Retrieved 6...
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where many imperial capitals were built (Indraprastha, Dhillika, and Shahjahanabad) but the actual capital being the new British-built town designed by...
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structures were set up for illumination." Gauhar Ara Begum died in Shahjahanabad in 1706. Aurangzeb, who was stationed in the Deccan at the time, was...
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Aurangzeb, the Mughal capital definitively became the walled city of Shahjahanabad (Old Delhi). The Mughal Empire's legal system was context-specific and...
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city of Dinpanah/Shergarh (1534), near Purana Qila The seventh city Shahjahanabad (mid 17th century) The eighth modern city New Delhi, built in the 1920s...
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Salimgarh Fort.: 04 The fortress-palace was a focal point of the city of Shahjahanabad, which is present-day Old Delhi. Shah Jahan's successor, Aurangzeb,...
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Siege of Delhi (redirect from Siege of Shahjahanabad)
The Siege of Delhi was one of the decisive conflicts of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The rebellion against the authority of the East India Company was...
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He is known for his Ghazals and Urdu Qasidas. He was born in 1713 in Shahjahanabad (i.e. Old Delhi), where he was also brought up. At the age of 60 or...
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Shaikh Zahuruddin Hatim Born 1699 Shahjahanabad, Mughal India Pen name Hatim Language Urdu...
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on the landscape of the capital city of Shahjahanabad. Of the eighteen buildings in the city of Shahjahanabad commissioned by women, Jahanara commissioned...
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Historic map of Delhi (Shahjahanabad), in 1863, showing it as Oriental College...
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Gate is the southern gate in the historic walled city of Delhi, or Shahjahanabad in 1638 AD. The gate links the New Delhi city with the old walled city...
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Moghul Emperor of India. Sang-e-Meel. p. 36. Shama Mitra Chenoy (1998). Shahjahanabad, a City of Delhi, 1638-1857. Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers. p. 82...
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Colonial State, and Education before 1857 and edited Sair-Ul-Manazil. Shahjahanabad: Mapping a Mughal City, Chandni Chowk: The Mughal City of Old Delhi...
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13 November 1720. He was sent back to the prison in the citadel of Shahjahanabad. A quartrain quoted by Khush-hal Chand says, his day of power had been...
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where emperor ordered him for construction of the new imperial city, Shahjahanabad in 1639. The building of the city, including the Red fort, was complete...
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early Turkish traditions, and not that of Byzantium." Stephen P. Blake, Shahjahanabad: The Sovereign City in Mughal India, 1639–1739. Cambridge University...
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buildings around the Delhi Fort; the third describes the monuments in Shahjahanabad; and the last section presents a brief historical account of the various...
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last emperor, Bahadur Shah II, had authority over only the city of Shahjahanabad. Bahadur issued a firman supporting the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Consequent...
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kept in seclusion and cared for by Dara in the newly built city of Shahjahanabad (Old Delhi). Rumours spread that Shah Jahan had died, which led to concerns...
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shifted. The fifth Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan built the walled city of Shahjahanabad within Delhi, and its landmarks, the Red Fort and Jama Masjid. His reign...
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senior officer of the former ruler[citation needed], led a delegation to Shahjahanabad where they pleaded with Aurangzeb to recognise the older of these two...
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