1: The dome of Rashtrapati Bhavan rises over the

1: The dome of Rashtrapati Bhavan rises over the evening haze of New Delhi, 2001.
2: Rashtrapati Bhavan, 1992.
3: The historic cities of Delhi.
4: Government House, Charles Wyatt, 1803, Calcutta.
5: Indo-Saracenic style: Victoria Terminus, F.W. Stevens, 1888, Bombay, and Prince of Wales Museum, George Wittet, 1914, Bombay.
6: City Plan for New Delhi, from the “Final Report of the Delhi Town Planning Committee,” dated March 20th, 1913.
7: City Plan for the Raisina acropolis, from the “Layout plan of New Delhi” as built in 1931.
8: The Imperial tent with Saracenic dome at the 1911 Coronation Durbar of King-Emperor George V and Queen-Empress Mary.
9: Plan of the Raisina acropolis with the addition of the Council House to the northeast of the Secretariats.
10: King’s Way, looking west towards the Raisina acropolis, 2001.
11: Shah Jahan’s Jama Masjid, 1656, Shahjahanabad (Old Delhi).
12: The colonial divisions of Delhi: 1 – Shahjahanabad, the indigenous city; 2 – New Delhi, the colonial city; 2a – Army Lines.
13: New Delhi plan showing residential groupings by rank.
14: Edwin Landseer Lutyens
15: The Gradient from King’s Way and the Great Place.
16: The east facade of the Viceroy’s House, 1981.
17: Details of the east facade of the Viceroy’s House, 2002.
18: Lutyens’ Delhi Order at the eastern dodecastyle colonnade.
19: Aśokan capital at Lauriya Nandangarh, 3rd century bce.
20: Jain capital at Moodbidri, 15th century, and Gupta victory column, 4th-5th centuries at the Qutb Complex, Delhi.
21: Chattris at Akbar’s tomb, c. 1612-1614 at Sikandra and at the Diwan-i-Khas, c. 1568-1578 at Fatehpur Sikri.
22: Deeply overhanging chādya on the south facade of the Viceroy’s House
23: Chādya of the Diwan-i-Am at the Red Fort, 1639-1648.
25: Battlements at the Red Fort, Delhi.
24: The dome of the Viceroy’s House.
26: The stupa at Sanchi.
27: Council House and Secretariats under construction, aerial view.
28: The Viceroy’s House under construction.
29: Herbert Baker’s Council House, later the Parliament Building.
30: Raisina Hill, the culmination of New Delhi. The proposed institutional buildings flanking King’s Way were not built.
31: Inauguration Ceremonies, February 1931: unveiling the four Dominion Columns.
32: The ceremonial axis to the Viceroy’s House.
34: View of the Viceroy’s House from the India Gate.
33: View from the Viceroy’s House down King’s Way.
35: Britannic lions guarding the viceregal forecourt.
36: The Mountbattens and staff of the Viceroy’s House, 1947.
37: First Floor plan of the Viceroy’s House.
38: Durbar Hall, 2002. A 4th-5th century Gandhara Buddha has replaced the viceregal thrones.
39: Durbar Hall with viceregal thrones and the Royal Seal as built in 1929.
40: The State Ballroom as built in 1929.
41: The Viceroy’s House from the Mughal Gardens.
42: The Mughal Gardens.
43: The Mughal Gardens.
44: The Dominions of India and Pakistan.
45: Mahatma Gandhi.
46: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
47: Gandhi leaving the Viceroy’s House after meeting with Irwin in 1931.
48: Mohammed Ali Jinnah.
49: The Mountbattens arrive at the Viceroy’s House, March 22nd 1947. Painting by Commander J.S. Dallison.
50: Lord Mountbatten is sworn in as the last Viceroy.
51: The Viceroy and Vicereine Mountbatten enthroned in Durbar Hall.
52: Negotiations in the Viceroy’s House. From left to right: V. Patel, J. Nehru, Mountbatten, Jinnah.
53: Lord and Lady Mountbatten with Nehru at the Viceroy’s House.
54: India awakens to freedom; Nehru speaks from the Red Fort.
55: Mountbatten greets a jubilant crowd on August 15th, 1947.
56: The British crown is removed from the top of the flagpole, August 15th.
58: Mountbatten at Gandhi’s cremation.
57: Gandhi’s funeral procession.
59: C. R. is sworn in as the second Governor-General.
60: C. Rajagopalachari ploughing the Mughal Gardens.
61: C. Rajagopalachari leaving Government House.
62: Dr. Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as the first President of India.
63: Statues of King-Emperor George V and Queen-Empress Mary graced the east loggia colonnades of Government House.
64: The statues on the east facade of the Viceroy’s House, and boxed during Rajendra Prasad’s Presidency at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
65: Queen Elizabeth II reads a statement in the State Dining Room in 1961;
Lord Hardinge’s portrait hangs in the background.
66: The State Dining Room in 2002, with new portraits.
67: The Emblem of India, adopted from an Aśokan capital at Sarnath.
68: The National Flag of India, with the Aśokan wheel of Dharma.
69: The Rampurva Bull capital under Lutyens’ dodecastyle portico.
70: The Rampurva Bull capital in front of the entrance to Durbar Hall.
71: The 4th-5th century Gandhara Buddha placed in Durbar Hall.
72: The Buddha flanked by the preamble to the Constitution of India.
73: Le Corbusier’s Parliament Building at Chandigarh.
74: Monumental entrance to the Parliament at Chandigarh.
75: Interior use of light at the High Court.
76: The Indira Gandhi Centre for the Arts to the south of Rajpath in Lutyens’ Delhi. 1986 competition model as proposed by Ralph Lerner.
77: President Narayanan receiving Richard F. Celeste, ambassador of the United States of America, in Ashok Hall in 1997.
78: President Reddy awarding Mother Teresa the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award, in 1980. 79: Coronation Throne of the 1911 Durbar.
80: Relics of the Raj housed in the Portrait Gallery, previously the Marble Hall, opened on October 24th, 1991 by President Venkataraman.
81: Republic Day Parade, January 26th 2001.
83: Republic Day Parade, 2001.
84: Republic Day Parade, 2001.
85: AGNI-II Missile at the Republic Day Parade, 2004.
82: Republic Day Parade, January 26th 2001.
86: Beating the Retreat, 1991.
87: Peaceful protestors approach the India Gate as Rashtrapati Bhavan looms in the background, in Rang de Basanti, 2006.
88: General Dyer becomes the Defence Minister in Rang de Basanti, 2006.
89: New Delhi from the India Gate, 2007.
90: Rashtrapati Bhavan, 2007.
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