Delhi – some history
1060 AD first city of
Delhi
1191 Delhi falls to the Afghan Muslim armies of
Muhammad Ghor
1206 Delhi
sultanate founded
1398 Tamelane
invades and sacks Delhi
Founds
the Sayyid dynasty.
1444 Sayyid’s
ousted.
1526 Mughal
emperor Babur takes over ending the Delhi Sultanate.
1540 Baburs
son Humayun ousted by Sher Shah Suri
1556 Hamayun
retakes Delhi but dies the following year.
1565 Hamayun’s
son Akbar shifts the Mughal capital from Delhi to Agra.
1638 Akbar’s
grandson Shah Jahan shifts the capital back to Delhi. (old Delhi)
1739 Mughal
power crumbles. Persian emperor Nadir
Shah sacks Delhi, slaughtering 15000.
1784 The
Marathas take over making the emperor their vassal.
1803 Battle
of Delhi – Britains East India Company defeat the Marathas and are effectively
the rulers
1857 First
war of Independence. Delhi supports the
insurgents but he British retake the city with bloody reprisals, deposing the
Mughals and expelling Muslim Delhiites for 2 years.
1911 British
decide on new Indian capital at Delhi as opposition to colonial rule
mounts in Calcutta.
1931 Delhi
officially inaugurated as the capital of the Raj.
1947 British
hand over power in Delhi to India’s first elected government but Hindu mobs
drive many Muslims from the city. Hindu
and Sikh refugees flood in from the Punjab and Bengal.
1975 – 77 Indira
Ghandi’s Emergency forced eviction of Muslim slum dwellers from Old Delhi
1984 Indira
Ghandi assassination. Followed by sectarian
riots targeting Delhi’s Sikh population.
The above info is courtesy of:
The Rough Guide to India
E book 2015
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