South Secretariat was designed by Herbert Baker and built in 1912; it houses government offices and is not open to the public.
South Secretariat
New Delhi
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Built in 1910 by the British, this monumental building still contains administrative government offices and is not open to the public.
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Vijay Chowk marks the crossroads between Sansad Marg and Rajpath, close to the President's Palace.
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This circular, colonnaded building, designed by Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker, was where the 1947 handover of power from Britain to the newly…
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One of the five Nehru planetariums across India established to educate about the solar system; there are shows in English and Hindi.
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Rajpath (Kingsway) is a vast parade linking India Gate to the offices of the Indian government. Built on an imperial scale between 1914 and 1931, it was…
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