Tag: east india company

• Eid e Salona, Sair e Gulfaroshan, Matka Kothi (Metcalfe House – Dilkush) aur Mehrauli 

  

  Stories from the Mughal and British times of Delhi!

  adityapathak

  January 25, 2022

  Culture, Delhi, Explorations, Mehrauli, Travel, Videos

  asif khan dehlvi, british raj, delhi, east india company, heritage, history, India, metcalfe, Travel

• Sir George Everest’s House and Laboratory – Park Estate (video)

  

  In the latest episode from our Heritage Explorations at Musoorie and Landour we bring to you Sir George Everest’s House and Laboratory, also known as Park Estate! Apart from the serene visuals, in this episode, we also get to know more about the life and times of George Everest, the Great Trigonometric Survey of India,…

  adityapathak

  November 13, 2015

  Culture, Explorations, Films, Heritage, History, Travel, Videos, Vlog

  east india company, George Everest, Great Trigonometric Survey of India, heritage, history, landour, mussoorie, Park Estate, Pt. Nayan Singh, Radhanath Sikdhar, Survey of India, Surveyor General

• Heritage Walk at Musoorie and Landour – Episode 1 : The Discovery of Mussoorie!

  

  So here’s the first episode from our new Heritage Trail video series – A Tale of 2 Cities – MUSSOORIE & LANDOUR 🙂 Discover how the British “found” Mussoorie during the 19th Century.. how the place got it’s name.. and how it developed into a beautiful “rejuvenating” town for the ailing “Company”! All this and more…Happy…

  adityapathak

  October 13, 2015

  Culture, Explorations, Films, Heritage, History, Stories, Sufi, Travel, Videos, Vlog

  Ajay Sharma, british, British rule, Britishers, colonial, Dehradun, east india company, Frederick Wilson, heritage, Heritage Tour, history, India, landour, mussoorie, Pahaadi Wilson, Tihri, tour, Travel

• The KALA AMB Park – Panipat Battle Field Memorial

  

  In the final episode of our Heritage Explorations at Panipat we bring to you KALA AMB – the Memorial of 3rd Battle of Panipat! Happy Exploring 🙂

  adityapathak

  September 23, 2015

  Culture, Explorations, Films, Travel, Videos, Vlog

  3rd battle of panipat, battle, battle of panipat, black mango, culture, east india company, Haryana, heritage, history, India, kala amb, maratha, memorial, Panipat, Panipat Battle Field Memorial, third battle of panipat, war

• Metcalfe’s Bridge and Boathouse (Dilkusha) – Mehrauli Archaeological Park (Episode 5)

  

  In this episode we go further inside the Mehrauli Archaeological Park exploring Dilkusha – Metcalfe’s pleasure-palace of sorts! We visit the place where, as a pat of re-landscaping the place, Metcalfe got a water stream redirected and also built a bridge and a boat house right next to a Mughal tomb!

  adityapathak

  January 10, 2015

  Delhi, Explorations, Films, Heritage, History, Mehrauli, Videos, Vlog

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• Metcalfe’s Folly and Dilkush – Mehrauli Archaeological Park (Episode 4)

  

  In this new episode of our Heritage Walk series to the Mehrauli Archaeological Park (New Delhi, India) we take you back to the 19th Century India. Standing beneath this very British looking Folly, today known as Metcalfe’s Folly (near the Jamali-Kamali mosque), we discuss about the times of the helpless Mughal court of Bahadur Shah Zafar…

  adityapathak

  January 4, 2015

  Delhi, Explorations, Films, Heritage, History, Mehrauli, Videos, Vlog

  aditya pathak, arunima pathak, Bahadur Shah Zafar, british, delhi, Delhi Heritage Vlogs, Dilkush, dilkusha, east india company, India, kanika singh, mehrauli, Mehrauli Archaeological Park, metcalfe, Metcalfe’s Folly, mughal, the city of djinns, the last mughal, Thomas Metcalfe