Delhi's Introduction

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New Delhi is the capital of India, the third largest city in the country. The sprawling city is divided into two parts - Old Delhi and New Delhi. If you will stay here for few days, you will experience that India's capital is filled with glittering gems like historical monuments, majestic museums, bazaars, modern skysscrapers, bustling commercial complexes and some of the sub-continent's yummiest places to eat.

The city, a major gateway hub, is als notorious for its maddening traffic and huge crowds. The tout menance is also quite annoying. If you are a "take it easy" visitor, you will never be disappointed for having come to delhi, a truly multidimensional metropolis.



Geography 


Delhi lies just in the central part of the Indian sub-continent, 300 meters above sea level, in between the Aravallis and the Himalayas. Topographically the city consists of three separate regions, the yamuna flood plain, the plains and the Ridge.


History 

What we know of Delhi as India's capital is just a littile of its historical importance. It is actually a gateway to western and central Asia and Southeast Asia. Delhi has seen the rise of many empires, which have left behind a plethora of  monuments that stand testimony to the grandeur and glory of bygone ages.

Britain shifted  its capital from calcutta to New Delhi after the visit of King George to India in 1911. After that Delhi saw constant growth in populations as well as infrastructure. British rule also led to the formation of a new city named New Delhi or Lutyen's Delhi. But all this has a downside. Delhi, nowadays, is suffocating due to overcrowding, traffic bottlenecks, pollution, shortages of power, housing, poverty and childlabour.

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