This is the first in a series of posts exploring buildings and neighborhoods mostly from the 1930s to 1950s in areas in Delhi such as Paharganj, Sadar Bazaar, Jhandewalan, Karol Bagh, Kamla Nagar and Jawahar Nagar. These areas are located to the west of Old Delhi/Shahjahanabad. Continue reading
The building stock in Old Delhi that we see along the streets and lanes throughout the old city, if it hasn’t been altered in recent decades, is mostly from the late-19th c and early-20th c. Among the buildings constructed in the early-20th c, there is an interesting variety of architectural styles used in the design of the buildings. Continue reading
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
This portion of Daryaganj includes uniformly designed town-house style developments, as well as areas that have more organic growth Continue reading
More early-20th c architectural goodness from the Daryaganj area. Continue reading
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
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
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
Asaf Ali Road runs along the southern edge of Old Delhi, and is in a way part of the transitional space between Old Delhi and the late-colonial architecture and urban space of Lutyens’ New Delhi to the south. Continue reading
I wanted to revisit a few areas in Old Delhi to take more photos and/or explore more. Continue reading
