Shahjahanabad

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Shahjahanabad, colloquially known as Old Delhi (Hindustani: Purāni Dillī), is a place in the Central Delhi district of Delhi, India. It was founded as a Walled City and officially named Shahjahanabad in 1648, upon Shah Jahan's decision to shift the imperial Mughal capital from Agra. The construction of the fortified city was completed in 1648, and it remained the capital of Mughal India until its fall in 1857, when the British Empire (whose Indian capital was at Calcutta) took over as paramount power in the Indian subcontinent. After the inauguration of New Delhi as the capital of India, the locality started to be colloquially known as Old Delhi in order to distinguish it from the capital city, or the rest of the NCT Region or National Capital Region. Old Delhi, or Shahjahanabad, rose as the capital of the Mughals for most of the empire's history, right from the rise and decline and demise of the empire. The major landmark monuments built during the Mughal era are the Red Fort, now a UNESCO...

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