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In the Palace of the Mirrors, Labors.
(Prepnrod by th*» Nh«I«»ivi) a»<>sraphtc
Society, \V ashingtoA, D. C.)
T HK movement toward the Inde
pendence of India has thrown
into prominence three of the
pivotal cities of the pensin-
suia. From Delhi, capital of India, the
Urlttsh officials are keeping close
watch of developments; In Lahore met
the All India Nationalist congress
which Issued the declaration of Inde
pendence; and in Calcutta, greatest of
The Indian cities, there was recently a
. huge demonstration in favor of Inde
pendence.
If one spot were singled out in hls-
’tory-steeped India as most historic of
Mirll, probably it would bo the city of
Delhi, for both written records and
oral traditions extending hack for ages
tell of power wielded from Delhi's site.
New Delhi, constructed to he the seat
•of the Empire of India, has Iteen nuilt
on ground where cities have risen and
passed away through the centuries,
•nnd about which are situated beauti
ful and striking monuments of one of
the world’s most powerful empires of
the past.
Though legend makes Delhi a place
>of Importance from earliest times, his
tory takes no account of it until about
lOoG A. D., when It was the seat of a
Hindu ruler. It was captured by
Mohammedan invaders from Afghani
stan in 1193, and from that time onward
was the capital of a Mohammedan In-
rMnn e^p^e. Delhi, In the days of the
Mohammedan conquest, lay to the
south of the present city, and there
where the new power was set up, the
first Mohammedan ruler. Kuth-ud-din,
♦milt in celebration of his conquest h
lower of victory, the Kutb Mmnr.
which stands today and has been called
"the most perfect tower ip the W'orld.”
Capital of the Great Mogul*.
• Timur the Lame (Tamerlane), the
Tatar scourge of Asia toward the end
'^<of the Fourteenth century, swooped
down from Sarmurkand In l.’IOS and
wicked Delhi; and ia 1.7JG ids lineal
•descendant, Uaber. took the Tatar
hordes again into India, captured the
city, and founded the Mogul empire,
through the fame of which Delhi is
best known to western ears. In 10,38
451iah Jahan, the Augustus of the Mo-
•gul emperors, built the present Delhi
to the north of the old city and em-
belished it with mosques and palaces
of great beauty.
Because of its rich history as the
fountain-head of power in India, Delhi
—not Calcutta, which was then the cap
ital—was chosen In 1S7T ns the site of
the Durhur, or gathering of native
kings and princes, at which Queen \ ic-
>toria was proclaimed empress of In
dia. Again in llXtft Delhi was chosen
when a Durbar was held to crown
King Edward YTl emperor, and once
more in 1911 when (leorge V assumed
that title. On the latter occasion the
new emperor announced that this an
cient city of emiH'rors would he re-
'stored as the capital of India and its
‘250,000,000 subjects.
The following year (lie viceroy and
'bis administrative council moved into
‘temporary quarters a few miles north
•of the city walls of Delhi. It is to
; the south of the Delhi of recent
♦decades, near the site of the more an-
vdent Delhi, however, that the new per
manent capital, planned on an imperial
scale, has recently risen. The city
has been designed to cover approxi
mately 36,000 acres and to house more
than 50,000 people connected-with the
administration of the imperial govern-
.roent
• To the superficial observer of the
'work recently In progress it might ap-
'penr that there have been rising the
Ymildings of a great world exposition.
Broad avenues have been laid out and
planted with trees. A central feature
fit an Imposing Processional way at
Che aid of which rises the main build-
dog of the group. Government house,
home of the viceroys of India. It in-
•dudes guest chambers and spacious
dining rooms, ballrooms and re-
halls. On either side of the
lonal way are secretariat
Inga.
is the capital of Pan Jab
one of the Important cross.
Not many curious
Custom of Challenge
by Gauntlet Kept Up
Tossing gauntlets to the ground In
challenge was not nearly so comnion
In the old days as some novelists
would have ns think. In the first days
of chain armor, there were no gaunt
lets nt nil. The Imnd wns protected
by a mitten attached to the sleeve.
When gauntlets did begin to appear. In
the days of the Fourth and Fifth eru-
sades. they were cumbersome things
which were strapped to the wrist so
firmly that issuing a challenge by
means of theifi would he more of n
Job than a hot-headed knight would
care to undertake.
It was not until plate armor hud
rebelled Its full glory that the gaunt
let Ifecume symbolic of challenge. And
It has rarely been anything else but
a symbol. Even today, there Is a per
sonage In England—the king cham
pion—whose duty It Is to cast a, glove
in Westminster abbey during the cere
monies attendant upon the coronation
of a king, and to cry loudly his will
ingness to fight any man who denies
the new king’s title.—Popular Biog
raphy.
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Is off the beaten paths of tourist travel.
Most tourists visit Calcutta and Bom
bay and perhaps the interior cities
between them, hut Lahore, lying about
200 miles northwest of Delhi, is a bit
out of the way. Yet trains from Im
portant southern Indian cities connect
with lines to the city; railroads from
the foothills of the western Himalaya
mountains touch it; there Is a line
from Lahore to the Afghan border on
the, north; and from the west come
trains from Karachi, popular landing
field for Europe-Asin aviators.
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Lahore Is Colorful.
Lahore Is about as old as the Chris
tian era and in some old, walled por
tions of the city there has not been
much change since the city was first
built. Some of the streets are so nar
row that sightseers who engage ele
phants for h tour watch the natives
scurry into doorways and. ns the ele
phants pass, flatten themselves against
the wall of unattractive houses that
think these byways.
Every house lias at least one en
closed balcony or bay window and no
two adjoining houses seem to have
them protruding from the same floor.
And no two balconies are the same
size. Tills feature of Lahore house
construction, and the further fact that
Lahore's "early builders apparently
gave no thought to an even building
line, make the native thoroughfares a
Jumble of uneven masonry and wood.
There are few women on the streets
of Lahore but no matter how ninny
windows a house has, nearly all of
them frame a bronzed feminine face.
Some of the women wear shawls,
others adorn themselves with trinkets
—stone-encrusted disks pierce the left
sides of their nostrils, heads nearly
cover the bright waists and bronzed
necks of the wearers, ami earrings
dangle from the ear lobes to the shoul
ders.
At the bazaars, the travelers mingle
with a colorful horde who watch crafty
merchants drive home sales of ham
mered metalware and earthen vessels
of all shapes and sizes, jewelry, and
many other products of local manu
facture.
Calcutta Huge and Busy.
Calcutta Is one of the most progres
sive cities of the East, with all the
modern devices to handle its tremen
dous commerce and entertain its na
tive and foreign population. In lesf f
than 250 years it has become the larg
est city In India and second only to
London in the British empire.
When Job Cknmock of the East
India company set up a trndiay; station
at Kalikuta in 1090 the Insignificant
native village occupied a narrow
stretch of dry land on the left bank
of the mud-laden Hooghly with fever-
infested swamps surrounding It on the
three other sides.
Charnock knew the products of the
rich Ganges and Brahmaputra valleys
could he routed through Kalikuta and
the swamps would protect his station
from unfriendly Indian neighbors, but
his wildest imagination, perhaps, did
not lead him to vision the Calcutta of
the Twentieth century.
Today three important railroads con
verge nt Calcutta. The treacherous
shifty channel of the Hooghly is a
parade ground for commercial vessels
of all sizes, flying flags of the world.
Nearly ten miles of modern wharves
and warehouses, equipped with all
modern devices, receive and export
many millions of dollars worth of jute,
tea, hides, oil seed, Inc, cotton, coal
and other products of Bengal and sur
rounding provinces. And mahy acres
of the old swamp land have been re
claimed, forming beautiful parks and
sites for government building*, and
palatial residences of “Jute kings” and
“tea kings.”
To the traveler who approaches Cal
cutta by water, Ita growth it a mys
tery. At the month of the Hooghly,
the indigo blue water of the Bay of
Bengal turns to a dirty brown. For
much of the 80-ml!e trip mud flats and
waterlogged a forest* form the river
side scenery with no evidence of clviii-
aation save for the commercial craft
plying the river. Only the most skilled
pilot can steer a vessel up the shifty
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