Transportation through the ages in Shahjahanabad

 
Early times: Feet and horses
During the Mughal era, people used to commute mostly by foot as carts were meant for commercial purposes and for transportation of groceries. Only the…

Chawri Bazaar

Chawri Bazaar is a wholesale market established in 1840. The market, which is a long stretch of street,

Mutiny Memorial

Even though the grand structures of Delhi are in ruins, history unfolds itself here building by building and site by site. One such structure that speaks volumes about the history…

Chunna Mal ki Haveli

Lala Rai Chunna Mal was a well-known moneylender (who even loaned money to British officials and officers) and textile trader of Old Delhi in the 1800s, and he owned…