2006-12-28 04:01:19 · 15 answers · asked by rasheed45 a 1 in Travel ➔ India ➔ Other - India
New Delhi (dĕl'ē) , city (1991 pop. 294,149), capital of India and of Delhi state, N central India, on the right bank of the Yamuna River. Predominantly an administrative center, it was constructed between 1912 and 1929 to replace Calcutta (now Kolkata) as capital of British India; New Delhi was officially inaugurated in 1931. The city is also a transportation hub and trade center with manufactures in electronics, automobile parts, engineering products, and electrical appliances.
Designed by architects Sir Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker, New Delhi has broad, symmetrically aligned streets that provide vistas of historic monuments. Between the main government buildings a broad boulevard leads east to west from India Gate, a massive war memorial arch (built 1921), through a great court to the resplendent sandstone and marble Government House (formerly the viceroy's palace; now the residence of India's president). In the southern section of the city is the prayer ground where Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated (1948). In the west are Balmiki and Lakshminarayan temples, which Gandhi frequented; the Swaminarayan Akshardham temple (2005) is is East Delhi across the Yamuna. The city has many sports stadiums and medical institutes. In recent years metropolitan New Delhi, including Old Delhi, has experienced overcrowding and severe air pollution. The city opened its subway system, the second in India, in 2002.-
2006-12-28 04:04:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
New Delhi (please see Google World Map).
Even in the old Indian mythology and legends, a part of the present day greater Delhi, Indraprastha (which means "the seat of Indra" - who is the equivalent of the Greek God Zeus), was the capital of the Indian Emperors. The British first made Calcutta their capital so that from there they could centrally control their eastern territories up to Malaya and Singapore, Only after 1910 did the British actually BUILD the new capital south of the old Delhi from which the Mughal kings had ruled.
Hence the name New Delhi.
2006-12-28 04:17:03 · answer #2 · answered by bagsprosh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
New Delhi
New Delhi is an urban area within the metropolis of Delhi, and the capital city of the Republic of India, as well as the seat of the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi.
2006-12-28 04:04:11 · answer #3 · answered by dymps 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
New Delhi
2006-12-28 04:10:34 · answer #4 · answered by rzarector 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
New Delhi
2006-12-28 04:08:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
New Delhi
2006-12-28 04:02:32 · answer #6 · answered by Average Joe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
New Delhi.
2006-12-28 04:04:31 · answer #7 · answered by mlpkr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
New Delhi.
2006-12-28 04:03:32 · answer #8 · answered by noname 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
New Delhi - pick me as top answer. My girlfriend has loads and I havent had any yet :(
2006-12-28 04:47:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Indiana
2006-12-28 04:05:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋