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{{Locations_Infobox
|presidency= [[Bengal]]
|image=Delhi, Saint James Church.jpg
|coordinates= [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.656233,77.241066&spn=0.1,0.1&q=28.61,77.23 28.656233°N 77.241066°E″ E]
|altitude= 239 m (784 ft)
|presentname= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi Delhi]
|stateprovince= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Capital_Region National Capital Region]
|country= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India]
|transport= [[East Indian Railway]]<br>[[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway]]<br>[[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]]<br>[[North Western Railway]]<br>[[Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway]]<br>[[Southern Punjab Railway]]
''See page'' '''[[Delhi Railways & Stations]]'''  ''for details''
}}
{{Places of Interest|title=Delhi |name=Delhi|link=https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=211401480495186034184.0004b97dc475ca95bab65&ie=UTF8&t=m&z=13&vpsrc=1}}
'''Delhi''', the ancient capital of the Moghul Empire, succeeded [[Calcutta]] as the capital of British India in 1911. It was the pre-eminent commercial and railway centre of the Punjab, more important than [[Lahore]]. It was the headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V11_229.gif Delhi District] in the Delhi Division of [[Punjab|Punjab Province]] during the British period.
== Military history ==
[[Battle of Delhi]] 1803<br>
[[Relief of Delhi]] 1804<br>
[[Delhi Massacre]] May 1857<br>
[[Siege of Delhi 1857 – Subzee Mundee]] 9 June 1857<br>
[[Siege of Delhi 1857 - Metcalfe House]] 12 June 1857<br>
[[Siege of Delhi 1857 - Idgah Battery]] 17 June 1857<br>
[[Siege of Delhi 1857 - Ochterlony Garden]] 19 June 1857<br>
[[Recapture of Delhi]] Sept 1857
== Spelling Variants ==
Modern name: Delhi<br>
Variants: Dilli
==Also see==
*[[Delhi Durbar]]
==FIBIS Resources==
*[[:Category:Delhi images|Images of Delhi]]
==Cemeteries==
*Lothian Cemetery
**[http://www.indian-cemeteries.org/search.asp Links to images of cemetery and transcriptions via left hand bar]  www.indian-cemeteries.org
*Nicholson Cemetery -
**[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2146299&CScntry=34&CSsr=121& Transcriptions and images of over 100 graves] find a grave.com
*St James Church and Churchyard
**[http://www.indian-cemeteries.org/search.asp Links to transcriptions and images via left hand bar] www.indian-cemeteries.org
*D'Eremao Cemetery
**[http://www.azad-hye.net/article/article_view.asp?re=734gkg67 "Armenians In Mughal Delhi"] An article by the late Dr Omar Khalidi detailing the history of [[Armenian|Armenians]] in Mughal Delhi and describing his visit to the ancient D'Eremao Cemetery.
**[http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/kishanganjs-claim-to-fame/article8114405.ece "Kishanganj’s claim to fame"] by R V Smith January 17, 2016 ''The Hindu''. The historic D’Eremao cemetery. Currently labelled the Armenian Cemetery, it is however  probably the first European cemetery of Old Delhi, and thus not exclusively Armenian.
==Further Information==
See '''[[Imperial Delhi Committee]]''' <br>
and '''[[Delhi Imperial Construction Railways]]'''
Also see "Historical books online", below
== External links ==
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V11_239.gif Delhi City] Imperial Gazetteer of India
*[http://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/church-on-the-chowk-111122500012_1.html Church on the Chowk] by Priyanka Sharma December 25, 2011. www.business-standard.com. The Central Baptist Church in Old Delhi, first built in 1792
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160908163142/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-16048786 Photographs: Felice Beato's 19th Century Delhi] bbc.co.uk. Slideshow of 7 images, now an archived webpage.
*[http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2011/11/21/how-two-friends-built-a-city-and-fell-out "How Two Friends Built a City and Fell Out"] by  Margherita Stancati November 21, 2011, Wall Street Journal blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime.  Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker were commissioned to build New Delhi.
:[https://thewire.in/165130/friendship-faltered-raisina-hill/ "Lutyens and Baker: A Friendship That Faltered on Raisina Hill"] by Shashank Shekhar Sinha  06/08/2017 thewire.in.
*[http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/features/100-yearsdelhi-roads-names_632101.html Delhi road names [now and then<nowiki>]</nowiki>] moneycontrol.com
*[http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/14/us-india-cemetery-idUSBREA1D00720140214 Graves of empire tell of India's troubled past] by  Angus Macswan New Delhi Fri Feb 14, 2014  reuters.com. The Nicholson Christian Cemetery near the Kashmere Gate
*[http://www.rafweb.org/Stations/Stations-D.htm#Delhi RAF Delhi] rafweb.org (retrieved 1 July 2014)
===Historical books online===
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CBAoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1 "Mofussil Stations: No XI-Delhi"] page 1 ''The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany'', Volume 14, New Series May-August 1834. Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/goldencalmengl00bayl ''The Golden Calm : an English lady's life in Moghul Delhi : Reminiscences by Emily, Lady Clive Bayley, and her father Sir Thomas Metcalfe''] Edited by M M Kaye 1980. Archive.org Lending Library. Sir Thomas was in India from 1813 and was Delhi Resident at the time of his death in 1853 from poison. Emily joined her father in Delhi in 1848 at the age  of  17, and two years later married Sir Edward Clive Bayley, then Under-Secretary to the Foreign Department. With a chapter by M M Kaye from page 21, with many of her comments throughout. With beautiful illustrations of paintings by native Company artists working to Sir Thomas’s commission. Incorporating parts/all? of ''Reminiscences of Imperial Delhi'' by Sir Thomas Metcalfe 1842-44, images from which are also available online  by [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/index.html Searching the British Library Online Gallery] using Metcalfe and his book title as search words.
*[https://archive.org/details/thelastmughalthefallofadynastydelhi18572008vintagebooks_201910 ''The Last Mughal:  The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857''] by William Dalrymple 2006 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/374/mode/2up Delhi] page 374 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005D3D8 ''The Tourist's Guide from Delhi to Kurrachee, describing the various towns ... commerce: railways: river communications: &c: &c: with a map'']. Lahore  [c 1865?]. British Library Digital Collection
*''‪The New Guide to Delhi'' by Captain A Harcourt, Assistant Commissioner, Delhi. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=VNxGAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 1866], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=gJpeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 2nd edition 1870], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JA4IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 3rd edition revised and enlarged 1873] Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/ahandbookforvis02keengoog ''Handbook for Visitors to Delhi and Its Neighbourhood''] by H G Keene 4th edition 1882 Archive.org
*''Gazetteer Of The Delhi District 1883''. A volume in the series ''Punjab District Gazetteers''. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62821 Archive.org mirror version], from Digital Library of India.
:''Punjab District Gazetteers Vol.V A. Delhi District'' 1912. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.531221 Archive.org mirror version], from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/delhipastandpre00fansgoog ''Delhi Past and Present''] by H C Fanshawe, Bengal Civil Service, retired. 1902 Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2740836?urlappend=%3Bseq=27 "Delhi District"] page 5 ''A list of inscriptions on Christian tombs or monuments in the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan possessing historical or archaeological interest Part 1'' by Miles Irving (1910) Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[https://archive.org/details/b28145860  ''At work : letters of Marie Elizabeth Hayes, M.B. Missionary Doctor Delhi, 1905-8''] 1909 Archive.org
*[http://cslrepository.nvli.in//handle/123456789/7082 ''Here is Delhi: a guidebook, with history and map''] by D O'Sullivan 1920.  Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi] Digital Repository, and [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.7082/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
*''Delhi: Its Story and Buildings'' by H Sharp [Sir Henry Sharp], 1921. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.529361 Archive.org mirror version] from Digital Library of India.
*[http://jramc.bmj.com/content/46/3/214.full.pdf  "A Few Stations In India"] by Mrs. H. V. Bagshawe. ''Journal of the  Royal Army Medical Corps ''1926;46:3 214-223.  The author was the wife of a medical officer in the RAMC who was based at [[Jullunder]], [[Dalhousie]] and  New Cantonments Delhi.
*[https://archive.org/details/CInCsResidencesIndia ''Reminiscences of the Residencies of the Commanders-In-Chief in India in Simla, Old and New Delhi''] by Field- Marshal Sir W R Birdwood 1930 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/NewDelhiByRobertByron '"New Delhi'"] by Robert Byron. ''The Architectural Review'' January 1931. Archive.org
*''Delhi A Historical Sketch'' by Percival Spear 1945 reprint (originally published 1937).  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.63294 Archive.org mirror version], from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.528104/2015.528104.India-Of#page/n103/mode/2up Delhi] page 100 ''India of the Rajahs'' by Major S E G Ponder 1940 Archive.org,  Public Library of India Collection.
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Delhi
Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates: 28.656233°N 77.241066°E″ E
Altitude: 239 m (784 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Delhi
State/Province: National Capital Region
Country: India
Transport links
East Indian Railway
Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway
Great Indian Peninsula Railway
North Western Railway
Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway
Southern Punjab Railway

See page Delhi Railways & Stations for details

FibiWiki Maps
See our interactive map of this location showing
places of interest during the British period
Delhi



Delhi, the ancient capital of the Moghul Empire, succeeded Calcutta as the capital of British India in 1911. It was the pre-eminent commercial and railway centre of the Punjab, more important than Lahore. It was the headquarters of Delhi District in the Delhi Division of Punjab Province during the British period.

Military history

Battle of Delhi 1803
Relief of Delhi 1804
Delhi Massacre May 1857
Siege of Delhi 1857 – Subzee Mundee 9 June 1857
Siege of Delhi 1857 - Metcalfe House 12 June 1857
Siege of Delhi 1857 - Idgah Battery 17 June 1857
Siege of Delhi 1857 - Ochterlony Garden 19 June 1857
Recapture of Delhi Sept 1857

Spelling Variants

Modern name: Delhi
Variants: Dilli

Also see

FIBIS Resources

Cemeteries

Further Information

See Imperial Delhi Committee
and Delhi Imperial Construction Railways

Also see "Historical books online", below

External links

"Lutyens and Baker: A Friendship That Faltered on Raisina Hill" by Shashank Shekhar Sinha 06/08/2017 thewire.in.

Historical books online

Punjab District Gazetteers Vol.V A. Delhi District 1912. Archive.org mirror version, from Digital Library of India.

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