1: The dome of Rashtrapati Bhavan rises over the evening haze of New Delhi, 2001.

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1 1: The dome of Rashtrapati Bhavan rises over the evening haze of New Delhi, 2001.

2 2: Rashtrapati Bhavan, 1992.

3 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.

4 6: City Plan for New Delhi, from the Final Report of the Delhi Town Planning Committee, dated March 20 th, : City Plan for the Raisina acropolis, from the Layout plan of New Delhi as built in 1931.

5 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.

6 10: King s Way, looking west towards the Raisina acropolis, 2001.

7 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.

8 13: New Delhi plan showing residential groupings by rank. 14: Edwin Landseer Lutyens 15: The Gradient from King s Way and the Great Place.

9 16: The east facade of the Viceroy s House, : Details of the east facade of the Viceroy s House, 2002.

10 18: Lutyens Delhi Order at the eastern dodecastyle colonnade. 19: Aśokan capital at Lauriya Nandangarh, 3 rd century bce. 20: Jain capital at Moodbidri, 15th century, and Gupta victory column, 4 th -5 th centuries at the Qutb Complex, Delhi.

11 21: Chattris at Akbar s tomb, c at Sikandra and at the Diwan-i-Khas, c 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,

12 25: Battlements at the Red Fort, Delhi. 24: The dome of the Viceroy s House. 26: The stupa at Sanchi.

13 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.

14 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.

15 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.

16 36: The Mountbattens and staff of the Viceroy s House, : First Floor plan of the Viceroy s House.

17 38: Durbar Hall, A 4 th -5 th century Gandhara Buddha has replaced the viceregal thrones. 39: Durbar Hall with viceregal thrones and the Royal Seal as built in : The State Ballroom as built in 1929.

18 41: The Viceroy s House from the Mughal Gardens. 42: The Mughal Gardens. 43: The Mughal Gardens.

19 44: The Dominions of India and Pakistan. 45: Mahatma Gandhi. 46: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

20 47: Gandhi leaving the Viceroy s House after meeting with Irwin in : Mohammed Ali Jinnah. 49: The Mountbattens arrive at the Viceroy s House, March 22 nd 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.

21 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.

22 55: Mountbatten greets a jubilant crowd on August 15 th, : The British crown is removed from the top of the flagpole, August 15 th. 58: Mountbatten at Gandhi s cremation. 57: Gandhi s funeral procession. 59: C. R. is sworn in as the second Governor-General.

23 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.

24 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.

25 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.

26 69: The Rampurva Bull capital under Lutyens dodecastyle portico. 70: The Rampurva Bull capital in front of the entrance to Durbar Hall. 71: The 4 th -5 th century Gandhara Buddha placed in Durbar Hall. 72: The Buddha flanked by the preamble to the Constitution of India.

27 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 competition model as proposed by Ralph Lerner.

28 77: President Narayanan receiving Richard F. Celeste, ambassador of the United States of America, in Ashok Hall in : President Reddy awarding Mother Teresa the Bharat Ratna, India s highest civilian award, in : Coronation Throne of the 1911 Durbar. 80: Relics of the Raj housed in the Portrait Gallery, previously the Marble Hall, opened on October 24 th, 1991 by President Venkataraman.

29 81: Republic Day Parade, January 26 th 2001.

30 83: Republic Day Parade, : Republic Day Parade, : AGNI-II Missile at the Republic Day Parade, : Republic Day Parade, January 26 th : Beating the Retreat, 1991.

31 87: Peaceful protestors approach the India Gate as Rashtrapati Bhavan looms in the background, in Rang de Basanti, : General Dyer becomes the Defence Minister in Rang de Basanti, 2006.

32 89: New Delhi from the India Gate, : Rashtrapati Bhavan, 2007.

33 Image Credits Author: figures and photographs 11, 20, 21, 23, 25, 73, 74, 75, 89, 90. B. P. Singh (ed). The Millennium Book on New Delhi. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001: 1, 26, 29, 54, 81. Campbell-Johnson, Alan. Mission with Mountbatten. New York: Dutton, 1953: 49, 51, 52, 59. Chattopadhyay, Swati. Expedient forgetting; architecture in late-twentieth-century Indian nationalist imagination. Design Book Review 43 (2000): Collins, Larry, and Lapierre, Dominique. Schuster, 1975: Freedom at Midnight. New York: Simon and 46, 53, 55, 57, 58. Irving, Robert Grant. Indian Summer: Lutyens, Baker, and Imperial Delhi. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981: 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 27, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 41, 63. Irwin, John. Asokan Pillars: A Reassessment of the Evidence III: Capitals. The Burlington Magazine 117, no. 871 (October, 1975): Khushwant Singh. Delhi: A Portrait. Delhi: Delhi Tourism Development Corp., 1983: 10. King, Anthony D. Colonial Urban Development: Culture, Social Power and Environment. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1976: 12, 13, 32. Nath, Aman. Dome Over India: Rashtrapati Bhavan. Mumbai: India Book House, 2002: 20, 24, 38, 40, 43, 47, 57, 59, 60, 65, 66, 69, 71, 77, 79, 80, 81. Prasad, Sharada. Rashtrapati Bhavan: the story of the President s House. New Delhi: Publication Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in association with National Institute of Design for Rashtrapati Bhavan, 1992: 2, 62, 64, 67, 69, 78. Volwahsen, Andreas. Imperial Delhi: The British Capital of the Indian Empire. New York: Presetal, 2002: 7, 14, 17, 18, 28, 30, 37, 54, 63, 72, 84.