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New Delhi during its formative years
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A hundred years ago, the British monarch King George V anointed himself the Emperor of India and announced the shifting of the capital from Calcutta to Delhi.
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Till the 1910s, Delhi meant the Mughal built Shahjahanabad. But it was outside the Walled City where the British planned to build their new capital from scratch.
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On February 10, 1931, the then Viceroy of India, Lord Irwin formally inaugurated New Delhi, after nearly 20 years, the grand new capital was finally complete.
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The new Capital also had a place where the inhabitants could have all the trappings of the good life. Like London, New Delhi got its own Piccadilly Circus in Connaught Place.
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The British chose Raisina Hill as the base on which the Government House (now Rashtrapati Bhavan) would be built, so it could tower above the Capital.
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Commissioned much later after the layout of New Delhi was planned, the Parliament House (then called Council House) got a secondary location compared to the Government House and Secretariat.
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At the apex of the new city was the Government House (now Rashtrapati Bhavan), joined by North and South blocks and a grand vista culminating at the All-India War Memorial (now India Gate).
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