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Tag Archives: daryaganj

Daryaganj VI: West of Ansari Road

Posted on December 16, 2015 by varunshiv

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 →

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Daryaganj V: South-West of Ansari Road

Posted on December 16, 2015 by varunshiv

This portion of Daryaganj includes uniformly designed town-house style developments, as well as areas that have more organic growth Continue reading →

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Daryaganj IV: South-East of Ansari Road

Posted on December 15, 2015 by varunshiv

More early-20th c architectural goodness from the Daryaganj area. Continue reading →

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Daryaganj III: North-East of Ansari Road

Posted on December 15, 2015 by varunshiv

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 →

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Daryaganj II: Two Mosques in Daryaganj

Posted on December 14, 2015 by varunshiv

Two Mughal-era mosques in the Daryagnaj area still give an idea of what they would have been like in centuries past, having not been altered too much. Continue reading →

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Daryaganj I: Along Netaji Subhash Marg

Posted on December 14, 2015 by varunshiv

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 →

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Semi Semi-Circular Arch, Daryaganj

Posted on December 8, 2015 by varunshiv

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