Lodhi Garden
Ninety-acre garden with medieval domed tombs of Lodi sultans set among rose beds and wooded paths.
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This guide to Lodhi Garden in Delhi follows the Lodi sultans, horse-trader descendants who ruled Delhi from the 1450s and built ever grander tombs to shore up their claim to the throne, ending with Sultan Sikandar Lodi's tomb, raised by his son Ibrahim as the most elaborate yet. It traces how the British cleared two villages from this land in the 1930s to turn the standing monuments into a park, and follows Ibrahim as he marched his army north to face an invader named Babur at Panipat. Walk the paths between the domes and notice how each tomb tries to outdo the one before it.
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