About Delhi :

Delhi Introduction :

On first inpressions, Delhi, with its jam-packed streets, tower blocks and temples, forts, mosques and colonial mansions, can be disorienting and fascinating. It certainly takes a while to find your feet, as you attempt to weave a path through buses, trucks, nuppy modern cars, mopeds, rickshaws, cows, bullock carts, hand-pulled trolleys and the occasional elephant being ridden along with the flow of traffic.
Delhi becomes more manageable as you start to appreciate that geographically as well as historically it consist of several distinct cities if anything, more than the Seven Cities of tradition. The hub of the metropolis is Central New Delhi, an orderly plan of wide roads lined with sturdy colonial buildings which was established soon after the imperial capital of British India moved here in 1911. Many of the city's hotels are here, concentrated amid the columned facades of Connaught Place, and just north of Old Delhi, Shah Jahan's seventeenth-century Capital (shajahanabad), lies 2 km or so further north. This is Delhi at its most intessentially Indian, where the traditional lifestyle of its predominantly Muslim population has changed little over two hundred years. A visit to Old Delhi's mighty Red Fort and Jami Masjid, India's largest mosque combined with the old city's bazaars.
The other five of Delhi's ex-capitals, further south, are today all but deserted, standing as impressive reminders of long-vanished dynasties. Among them you will find the towering free-standing column erected by Qutub-ud-din Aibak, the Qutub Minar and Purana Quila, Humayun's Tomb, and the major monument of the great Moghul period is Lal Qila, the "Red Fort". in Old Delhi.

Delhi Facts and Figures :

Area	1485 sq km
Altitute	216 mts. above sea level
Time Zone	MT/UTC plus five hours 30 minutes
Population	13.8 millions
State	India
Language	Punjabi, Hindi, English
STD Code	011
Weather	Summer. May and June being hottest month.Temperature as high as 46 degree celcius.
Weather	Winter. Nov. to Feb. are coldest and dry months Temp. as low as 4 degree celcius.

Delhi History :

Belief has it that Delhi was the capital city of the Kingdom of the Pandavas, the heoros of the Mahabharata over 3000 years ago. Since the 12th century, Delhi has seen the rise and fall of seven major powers. The Chauhans took control in the 12th century and made Delhi the most important Hindu centre in northern India. When Qutab-ud-din Aibak occupied the city in 1193, he ushered in six and a half centuries of Muslim rule. The Delhi Sultanate lasted from 1206 to 1526, despite its inconsistent rule, and was followed by the mighty Moghuls from 1526 to 1857. The basis of what is today 'Old' Delhi, including the Red Fort and the Jama Masjid, was built during the reign of the Moghul emperor Shah Jahan (1628-1658).

In 1803, the British captured Delhi and installed a British administrator. Delhi was not the capital of India at the time, When the British decided to make Delhi the capital in 1911, they built New Delhi in a grandiose imperial style, as if the sun would never set on the British Raj.

Only 16 years after the city was inaugurated as the nation's capital, Delhi was torched during the trauma of Partition. In a matter of weeks it was transformed from a Muslim-dominated city of less than a million inhabitants to a largely Hindu city of almost two million. Today, very few city residents can lay claim to being 'real' Delhi-wallahs, and most of the population of New Delhi comprises Hindu Punjabi families originally from Lahore.

Since Independence, Delhi has prospered as the capital of India. In the past decade, its population has increased by 50%, largely due to rapid economic expansion and increased job opportunities. The downside of this boom is increased overcrowding, traffic congestion, housing shortages and pollution.

Delhi Best Seasons

October to March is the best season to visit in Delhi.

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