Connaught Place
Circular Georgian colonnade with radiating roads, built as the imperial capital's commercial center.
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This guide to Connaught Place in Delhi follows architect Robert Tor Russell from the trenches of the 1917 Baghdad campaign to his biggest commission: designing the commercial heart of the new imperial capital in the late 1920s, drawing on Bath's Royal Crescent to sketch two concentric colonnaded circles with roads radiating outward. It traces the man the square was named for, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, and follows Russell's stranger legacy at Teen Murti Bhavan, the house he built for Britain's Commander-in-Chief that later became Jawaharlal Nehru's residence. Stand under the colonnade and take in the sweep of the two circles Russell drew.
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