Tag: metcalfe

• 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

• Quli Khan’s Tomb (Metcalfe’s Dilkush) : Mehrauli Archaeological Park – Part 6

  

  In this episode we explore Quli Khan’s tomb located at the core of Metcalfe’s Dilkush! As we climb atop the tomb we also get to see glimpses of Azim Khan’s tomb, Ahimsa Sthal, jamali Kamali mosque, Adham Khan’s tomb and the Qutub complex.  Happy Exploring 🙂

  adityapathak

  January 26, 2015

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

  Adham Khan’s tomb, Ahimsa Sthal, Azim Khan, Azim Khan’s tomb, Dilkush, dilkusha, Mehrauli Archaeological Park, metcalfe, Quli Khan, Quli Khan’s Tomb, Rajon ki Baoli

• 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

  aditya pathak, arunima pathak, british, Delhi Heritage Vlogs, Dilkush, dilkusha, east india company, first farmhouse in mehrauli, heritage, heritage walk, mehrauli, Mehrauli Archaeological Park, metcalfe, Metcalfe’s Boathouse, Metcalfe’s Bridge, Thomas Metcalfe

• 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

• Celebrating GHALIB – Episode 2

  Celebrating GHALIB (Episode 2) – Let us take you to the place where the great poet Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan “Ghalib” once lived! For all lovers of GHALIB ..here’s the final episode of our visit to his Haveli. Interesting anecdotes from Ghalib’s life, Poetry, Lanes of Old Delhi and much more in here! Enjoy

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  January 20, 2014

  Explorations, Films, Stories, Videos

  1857, ballimaran, delhi, dilli, ghalib, haveli, hindi, kasim jaan, metcalfe, mirza ghalib, old delhi, persian, poem, poetry, purani dilli, qasim jaan, shayari, urdu, zafar, zauq