Description: A city plan from 1912 of Delhi, India, on the bank of the River Jumna (Yamuna), a tributary of the Ganges. At the time, Delhi was declared the political and administrative capital of British India (1911), replacing the former capital of Calcutta. The plan shows the Shahjahanabad, or Modern Delhi, the Civil Section to the north, major thoroughfares, railways and railway stations, hospitals, forts and military installations, government buildings, ruins, museums, mosques, and historic sites of the city at the time.
Place Names: India , Delh
ISO Topic Categories: society
Keywords: Delhi, political, transportation, roads,
railroads, society, Unknown, 1912
Source: Ernest Rhys, Ed., A Literary and Historical Atlas of Asia (New York, NY: E.P. Dutton & CO., 1912) 139
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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