Kanchipuram has temples from the Pallava, Chola, Vijaynagar and Nayaka periods, all the way from the 8th c to the 17th c. The town’s stock of residential buildings is quite impressive as well, with colonial and desi deco styled buildings, as well as ‘traditional’ pitched-roof houses. Continue reading
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A Few Old Bungalows in the Civil Lines Area
The Civil Lines area of Delhi, immediately north of Shahjahanabad/Old Delhi, had started to be occupied by the British from the early decades of the 19th century Continue reading
Daryaganj VI: West of Ansari Road
The residential neighborhoods in this area are interspersed with institutional buildings and compounds. Even with this difference, this area follows the same pattern as the area south of it Continue reading
Daryaganj V: South-West of Ansari Road
This portion of Daryaganj includes uniformly designed town-house style developments, as well as areas that have more organic growth Continue reading
Daryaganj IV: South-East of Ansari Road
More early-20th c architectural goodness from the Daryaganj area. Continue reading
Daryaganj III: North-East of Ansari Road
While the commercial part of Daryaganj was redeveloped in the early-20th c along Faiz Bazaar road (now Netaji Subhash Marg), the inner areas of Daryaganj, to the east of Netaji Subhash Marg, were developed into residential and institutional zones. Continue reading
Daryaganj I: Along Netaji Subhash Marg
The area of Daryaganj is the south-eastern part of the walled city of Shahjahanabad, and used to lie along the banks of the river Yamuna (the floodplain of the river was “shifted” roughly a kilometer to the east by the British), south of the Red Fort. Continue reading
Semi Semi-Circular Arch, Daryaganj
Shahjahanabad IV: Fatehpuri Masjid & Katra Bariyan
I had put up my first Shahjahanabad post, on the Khari Baoli and Katra Neel areas, way back in Nov 2009, as part of my Dilli Darshan series (that first post also has my introduction to the Shahjahanabad series). Continue reading