Image: Shahjahanabad or Modern Delhi 1911 map

Description: Identifier: handbooktravelle00john Title: A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon . Year: 1911 (1910s) Authors: John Murray (Firm) Subjects: India -- Guidebooks Burma -- Guidebooks Sri Lanka -- Guidebooks Publisher: London : J. Murray Calcutta : Thacker, Spink, & Co. Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: DELHI AND ENVIRONS Text Appearing After Image: LoDdnii John >fniT«v. AlLcDLfirle Slrovt. ROUTE 14. DELHI—HISTORY 187 in its shops, the principal ones beingsitnated in the centre and E. end ofthe Chandni Chauk. The railway station, now one of thelargest in India, lies on the N. side ofthe city ; the Queens Gardens separ-ate it from the Chandni Chauk,which forms a street running E.and W. from the Fort and Palaceon the Jumna, to the FatehpuriMosque, near the Lahore Gate.Facing the S.W. angle of the Fort isthe great Jama Masjid, and furtherdown the river from the Fort is thesmall cantonment of Daryaganj. Inthe N. wall of the city are theKashmir and Mori Gates; at theN.W. earner the Kabul Gate ; belowit the Lahore Gate ; and at the S.W.corner the Ajmer. Outside the N.wall lies the civil station, bounded onthe E. by the river, and on the W. bythe Ridge, beyond which the canton-ment lay in 1857. S. of the modemcity, which should properh be knownby the name of Delhi-Shahjahanabad,the ruins of old cities and fortressesstretch for 12 Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Shahjahanabad or Modern Delhi 1911 map
Credit: Image from page 344 of "A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon ." (1911)
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