Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Ferozeshah Kotla

Early one morning, a few of us landed up at the ruins of the citadel of Ferozeshah in New Delhi. Some pics (courtesy Anjaani Manzil):

The Khooni Darwaza!! Aurangzeb hung the head of his brother Dara Shikoh here. The Brits also killed Bahadur Shah Zafar's 2 sons and grandson here after the Mutiny of 1857
Empire building??
Ruins of the day
the still functioning mosque
the Baoli or the stepwell

1 comment:

Alam said...

Hey
Nice pics dude
:-)