Journey of Delhi through Ages

Delhi has rich historicity of the ancient monuments and the cultural heritage sites of the World. On reviewing the magnitude of ancient historical and cultural heritage sites in Delhi, one would find that historically it commenced with the habitation by 736 A.D. Delhi is one of the greatest and oldest capital cities of the World. It is situated on the west bank of the River Yamuna. It was built seven times on different sites throughout the history (Hearn, 1974).

The previous seven cities do not exist any more, except as remanents of historical ruins of the Lal- Kot (10th Century), Siri (1303), Tughluqabad (1321), Jahanpanah (1327), Firuzabad (1354), Purana-Qila (1533) and Shahjahanabad (1639). There were many reasons for their demise range speculatively from lack of sufficient water, to epidemics, to migrations, to poor governance and to land encroachment etc. In addition, presently formed New Delhi (1911), of course, is eighth one among the cities of Delhi.

Sources: 1.http://www.fig.net/pub/athens/papers/wsa3/WSA3_5_Mohan.pdf 2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anagpur_Dam