Walter George came to India in 1915 as part of Lutyens team of Architects to work on New Delhi along with Robert Tor Russell, Arthur Gordon Shoosmith, Henry Medd and John Greaves, primarily assigned to develop drawings and an amalgamated language of classical architecture with Indian elements. Through his partnership, George admired and grew immensely […]
From a large business family of Hadali in Sargodha, came Sujan Singh and his son Sobha Singh as contractors to level land and lay roads for the Delhi Durbar of 1911, and there was no looking back for the father son duo. Sardar Sobha Singh would turn out to be the biggest contractor New Delhi […]
Padma Shri Yogeshwar Dayal was an advocate and former Justice of the Supreme court, born at Lahore in the early 1900s. He commissioned the Art Deco style building – Shankar Terrace at the iconic fountain chowk in Chandni Chowk, in the memory of his father, Lala Shankar Dayal, which was built in 1936, as a […]
Mohinder Singh worked as an independent engineer architect directly with the Municipality, and was an Associate Member of Society of Engineers. He used to self-learn design techniques and standards as he didn’t take any formal training by referring to British Design and Construction manuals, a few copies of which are still in possession of his […]
Rai Bahadur Ram Roop Gupta, owner of Nanneh Mal Sanwal Dass, Landlords and Bankers, was an affluent businessman who once upon a time owned the Sabzi Mandi Area, being gifted to him by the British government. In a bid to showcase his wealth, the title of ‘Rais’ he held and for greater good of the […]
Lala Shri Ram, often quoted as the biggest industrialist Delhi had in the mid Twentieth century, is mostly credited for spearheading the Delhi Cloth and General Mills setup by his uncle and for his philanthropist work particularly in the educational sector. Shri Ram believed in reinforcing the health and education sector for the society and […]
Lala Raghu Mal, an eminent figure of the older quarters, was the proprietor of Dehradun Mussoorie Electric Tramway Company, involved in the construction of networks between Dehradun and Rajpur. Raghu Mal’s business had spread afar to multiple cities of India, Calcutta, Dehradun, Mussoorie and Delhi, bringing him with avast exposure and knowledge of advancements of […]
CM Master, LV Sathe and GM Bhuta, together laid the foundation of the firm Master Sathe Bhuta in 1932. Graduates from Sir JJ School of Architecture, the first and only Institute in India accredited to RIBA, they were the only all Indian firm to operate in India. At JJ, under the mentorship of Claude Batley, […]
Dr H.C. Sen was the first allopathic doctor to Old Delhi who had a clinic and house at a rented space near fountain chowk, opposite Gurudrawa SisGanj and police station. Oral narratives suggest the plot belonged to Begum Samru and stood a modest double storey residence of the doctor. Dr Sen was known to greet […]
Shri Satya Narayan Aggarwal and Kailashwari Devi, owners of Kailash Sadan, started their journey from Etawah to Chandni Chowk, Delhi. Shri Satya Aggarwal, an electrical engineer manufacturing insulation rods for switch boards was a tenant at Jains of Katra Kushal Rai. Hazuri Lal, Moti Lal and Mistri Lal Jain were owners of the haveli who […]