Rashtrapati Bhavan
official residence of the President of India
Rashtrapati Bhavan (Hindi: भारतीय राष्ट्रपति भवन, Bengali: রাষ্ট্রপতি ভবন ; Sanskrit for Presidential House) is the official home of the President of India, located in New Delhi, India. The present president (now Ram Nath Kovind) stays there.
| Rashtrapati Bhavan | |
|---|---|
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  Location in New Delhi, Delhi, India | |
| Former names | Viceroy's House (until 1947) Government House (1947–1950) |
| Alternative names | Presidential House |
| General information | |
| Architectural style | Delhi Order[1] |
| Location | Rajpath, Raisina Hill, New Delhi, Delhi, India |
| Coordinates | 28°36′52″N 77°11′59″E / 28.61444°N 77.19972°ECoordinates: 28°36′52″N 77°11′59″E / 28.61444°N 77.19972°E |
| Current tenants | |
| Construction started | 1912 |
| Completed | 1929[2] |
| Opened | 1931 |
| Technical details | |
| Size | 130 hectare (321 acre) |
| Floor area | 200,000 sq ft (19,000 m2) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Edwin Lutyens |
| Website | |
| rashtrapatisachivalaya.gov.in | |
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ Kahn, Jeremy (30 December 2007). "Amnesty Plan for Relics of the Raj". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
He also invented his own "Delhi Order" of neo-Classical columns that fuse Greek and Indian elements.
- ↑ "Rashtrapati Bhavan". The President of India. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
BibliographyEdit
- Davies, Philip (1987). Splendours of the Raj: British Architecture in India, 1660–1947. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-009247-9.
- Gradidge, Roderick (February 1982). Edwin Lutyens, Architect Laureate. London: Unwin Hyman. ISBN 978-0047200236.
- Inan, Aseem, "Tensions Manifested: Reading the Viceroy's House in New Delhi", in The Emerging Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities and Urbanisms, ed. Vinayak Bharne, Routledge UK, 2012
- Irving, Robert Grant (May 1981). Indian Summer: Lutyens, Baker, and Imperial Delhi. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-02422-7.
- Nath, Aman; Mehra, Amit (2002). Dome over India: Rashtrapati Bhavan. India Book House. ISBN 978-8175083523.
