Shahjahanabad

English Etymology en fa-cls شاه‌جهان‌آباد šāhjahānābād City of the King of the World. en Shah Jahan I 1592 1666 Mughal emperor, who had it built. Proper noun en historical en Old Delhi. en Seminar on Redevelopment of Shahjahanabad 1976 Redevelopment of Shahjahanabad, the Walled City of Delhi: Resume of the Seminar: Report and Selected Papers Town and Country Planning Organisation, Ministry of Works and Housing, Govt. of India, New Delhi 3731297 11 https://books.google.com/books?id=MaVbifUMp10C&pg=PP11 Shahjahanabad is a unique mixture of beauty and squalor, of memories of past greatness and evidence of present decay.The task before us is to renew the essential character of Shahjahanabad while making it a healthy and wholesome urban area for its more than four lakh inhabitants.At present we cannot earmark large sums of money for Shahjahanabad.I hope the Seminar on Shahjahanabad will look for practical solutions to the problems of the Walled City. William K. Stevens Eight Historic Capital Cities https://web.archive.org/web/20180206024237/https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/20/travel/eight-historic-capital-cities.html 20 November 1983 Built by the Mogul Shah Jahan (Emperor of the World), who also built the Taj, it was called Shahjahanabad when completed in the 17th century. Today it is called the walled city or simply Old Delhi. en Zehra Kazmi Saudamini Jain Shahjahanabad: How a planned city came undone w:The Hindustan Times https://web.archive.org/web/20240303060346/https://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi-news/shahjahanabad-how-a-planned-city-came-undone/story-z7Gg3imYzCjCQQP3CBuZCO.html 29 January 2018 This fort was to be the epicentre of Shahjahanabad, the emperor’s new capital.¶ For more than 30 years, Shahjahanabad thrived, not only as the capital of the Mughal empire, but as a centre of culture, where art, poetry, music, artisanship all flourished. “Shahjahanabad was a statement of a way of life achieved after many centuries”, writes Shama Mitra Chenoy, a professor of history at Delhi University in her book, Shahjahanabad: A City of Delhi 1638-1857.