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Colonial Architecture reveals the progressive involvement of the British in India spanning about 400 years. Military engineers provided the first secure compounds for the East India Company’s trading posts in Madras 1639, Bombay 1668, and Calcutta 1690. As colonial influence spread so did the architecture. Edward Lutyen’s 1912 -1929 New Delhi grand plan used ideas from the Garden City movement, and laid the seeds for modern Indian city planning, and is seen as the best Raj architectural legacy.