Purana Qila -The Beauty of Indraprastha

Purana Qila is the most seasoned post around all fortresses in delhi and, the most seasoned known structure of any sort in Delhi. It was re manufactured by the Afghan ruler Sher Shah Suri, on the same site, which was may be the site of Indraprastha, accepted to be the capital of the pandavas, Sher Shah raised the fortification of Purana-Qila with a far reaching city-zone sprawling around it. It appears that the Purana-Qila was still inadequate at Sher Shah's passing in 1545, and was maybe finished by his child Islam Shah or Humayun, in spite of the fact that it is not sure which parts were fabricated by whom.

Purana Qila

 Purana Qila placed at the site of the unbelievable city of Indraprastha, that was established by Pandavas on the banks of enduring stream Yamuna , which is adored by Hindus since ages, focuses to the likelihood of this site's history going once more to about more than 5000 years of age. Therefore the post is acknowledged by some, to be 'the first city of Delhi'. Researchers now confirm that up till 1913, a town called Indrapat  existed with in the fortress dividers.

Unearthings completed by Archeological Survey of India (ASI) at Purana Qila in 1954-55  and again 1969 to 1973 by its Director, B Lal have uncovered Painted Gray Ware dating 1000 B.c., and with a persistent social grouping from Mauryan to Mughal through Sunga, Kushana, Gupta, Rajput and Sultanate periods, affirming the artifact of the stronghold.

Purana Qila , arranged on the banks of Yamuna, was built by the Pandavas as Indraprastha  5,000 years prior, throughout the time of the Indus Valley human progress. It is the place Humayun's capital Din Panah was spotted. Later it was revamped and named Shergarh by the first Afghan head of India, Sher Shah Suri. The Hindu lord Hemu regularly alluded to as the last Hindu sovereign of India, was delegated there in the wake of vanquishing Akbar's strengths in the Battle of Delhi (1556) on 7 October 1556.

Purana Qila should be unfortunate for rulers who possessed the site; Humayun, Sher Shah Suri, and Hemu all had yet moderately short residencies established there - Humayun on two separate events, having lost the post to Sher Shah just five years in the wake of raising it.

Purana Qila

The point when Edwin Lutyens planned the new capital of British India, New Delhi in 1920s, he adjusted the focal vista, now Rajpath, with Purana Qila. During the Partition of India, in August 1947 the Purana Qila alongside the neighboring Humayun's Tomb, turned into the site for shelter camps for Muslims moving to recently established Pakistan. This included over 12,000 administration representatives who had selected administration in Pakistan, and between 150,000–200,000 Muslim refugees, who swarmed inside Purana Qila by September 1947, when Indian government assumed control over the administration of the two camps. The Purana Qila camp remained practical work early 1948, as the trains to Pakistan held up till October 1947.

In the 1970s, the defenses of Purana Qila were initially utilized as a scenery for theater, when three preparations of the National School of Drama were arranged here: Tughlaq , Andha Yug and Sultan Razia, coordinated by Ebrahim Alkazi. In later decades it has been the venue of different vital theater processes, social occasions, and concerts. Today, it is the venue of an every day sound and light presentation after nightfall, on the historical backdrop of the "Seven Cities of Delhi".