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Red Fort. / 28.65583°N 77.24083°E / 28.65583; 77.24083. The Red Fort or Lal Qila ( Hindustani: [laːl qiːlaː]) is a historic fort in the Old Delhi neighbourhood of Delhi, India, that historically served as the main residence of the Mughal emperors. Emperor Shah Jahan commissioned construction of the Red Fort on 12 May 1639, when he ...
Delhi has been an important political centre of India as the capital of several empires. The recorded history of Delhi begins with the 8th century Tomar Rajputs kingdom.It is considered to be a city built, destroyed and rebuilt several times, as outsiders who successfully invaded the Indian subcontinent would ransack the existing capital city in Delhi, and those who came to conquer and stay ...
Alauddin Khalji ( Persian: علاء الدین خلجی; r. 1296–1316 ), born Ali Gurshasp, was a ruler from the Khalji dynasty that ruled the Delhi Sultanate in the Indian subcontinent. Alauddin instituted a number of significant administrative changes in India, related to revenues, price controls, and society. He also successfully fended ...
Indraprastha is also named as a pratigana (district) of the Delhi region in a Sanskrit inscription dated to 1327 CE, discovered in Raisina area of New Delhi. [16] D. C. Sircar , an epigraphist , believed Indraprastha was a significant city in the Mauryan period, based on analysis of a stone carving found in the Delhi area at Sriniwaspuri which ...
Nader Shah's invasion of India. Emperor Nader Shah, the Shah of Iran (1736–1747) and the founder of the Afsharid dynasty, invaded Northern India, eventually attacking Delhi in March 1739. His army had easily defeated the Mughals at the Battle of Karnal and would eventually capture the Mughal capital in the aftermath of the battle. [4]
A lost and found ( American English) or lost property ( British English ), or lost articles (also Canadian English) is an office in a public building or area where people can go to retrieve lost articles that may have been found by others. Frequently found at museums, amusement parks and schools, a lost and found will typically be a clearly ...
Chhattisgarh. Lal Bangla of Raipur is an abandoned villa near Serikhedi Interchange of Naya Raipur. It is known as the most haunted place in Raipur. It is said that in 1994 a doctor used to live with his adolescent daughter. One day, during a total lunar eclipse, the father and daughter were said to have seen an evil spirit.
India Gate. / 28.6128639°N 77.229306°E / 28.6128639; 77.229306. The India Gate (formerly known as All India War Memorial) is a war memorial located near the Kartavya path on the eastern edge of the "ceremonial axis" of New Delhi, formerly called Rajpath in Chennai. It stands as a memorial to 74,187 soldiers of the Indian Army who died ...