Delhi

the ancient capital of Hindustan. It is situated on an upper tributary of the Ganges in the region known as the Punjab. It is very nearly equidistant from Bombay and Calcutta, to both of which railways have been built. In the time of the Great Mogul, Jehan, it had a population of 2,000,000. He built the palace of the Great Mogul, the most magnificent and interesting structure of the kind in India. It rivals the kremlin of Moscow. A mosque of white marble and red sandstone was built by the same monarch. It cost half a million dollars. The modern city is surrounded by a wall thirty feet high, defended by towers and pierced by eleven gates. Delhi College, founded in 1792, and attended by several hundred students, maintains instruction in the English, Persian, Arabic, and Sanskrit languages. Delhi, with its surrounding ruins of tombs and palaces, has played an important part in the history of India. It is still noted for several industries, such as the weaving of cashmere shawls and the making of goldsmith's work of wondrous delicacy and beauty, especially gold embroidery. The people are half Hindu, half Mohammedan. Population, 208,000. See India