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1639 CE · political transition statecraft

Shahjahanabad Is Founded

Shah Jahan began building a new imperial city at Delhi, including the Red Fort and later the Jama Masjid.

Red Fort in Delhi, built as the palace-fort of Shah Jahan's new capital Shahjahanabad
Modern photograph of the Red Fort, one of the central surviving monuments of Shahjahanabad. It is not a seventeenth-century city view. · Credit: Tushark18 · License: CC BY-SA 4.0

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Sources and further reading

  1. NCERT — History: Our Pasts II
  2. NCERT — Themes in Indian History II

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