A Year in India
A Year in India
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CHAPTEE VL THE CITIES OF THE MUTINY DELHI.
"f^ELHI, Cawnpore, Lucknow, whose names are ""^ household words, I have associated together, not only because I. Saw them immediately in succes- sion, but because they are united by a common tie, which, for Englishmen and Englishwomen, at least of this and the next succeeding generations, must constitute their greatest interest, namely that they are the theatres in which were enacted the chief scenes of the tragic drama of 1857.
Although, since the beg...inning of the Christian era, there have been half-a-dozen distinct Delhis, the remains of whose forts, palaces, mosques, and tombs strew an area of forty-five miles surrounding the present city, yet the existing Delhi dates only from the middle of the seventeenth century, when it was founded by the monarch in honour of whom THE CITIES OF THE MUTINY -DELHI. 147 it bears also the name of Shahjehanabad. Indeed no inconsiderable portion of it is more recent still, for since the Mutiny rookeries of old houses have been swept away, public buildings of European archi- tecture erected, new roads, planted with trees, been constructed, and parks and gardens laid out.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
CHAPTEE VL THE CITIES OF THE MUTINY DELHI.
"f^ELHI, Cawnpore, Lucknow, whose names are ""^ household words, I have associated together, not only because I. Saw them immediately in succes- sion, but because they are united by a common tie, which, for Englishmen and Englishwomen, at least of this and the next succeeding generations, must constitute their greatest interest, namely that they are the theatres in which were enacted the chief scenes of the tragic drama of 1857.
Although, since the beg...inning of the Christian era, there have been half-a-dozen distinct Delhis, the remains of whose forts, palaces, mosques, and tombs strew an area of forty-five miles surrounding the present city, yet the existing Delhi dates only from the middle of the seventeenth century, when it was founded by the monarch in honour of whom THE CITIES OF THE MUTINY -DELHI. 147 it bears also the name of Shahjehanabad. Indeed no inconsiderable portion of it is more recent still, for since the Mutiny rookeries of old houses have been swept away, public buildings of European archi- tecture erected, new roads, planted with trees, been constructed, and parks and gardens laid out.
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