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Herbert Baker and debate on style of building India’s new capital New Delhi over 100 years ago

December 07, 2020
Herbert Baker and debate on style of building India’s new capital New Delhi over 100 years ago

By Japan K Pathak Presented below are the words of Sir Herbert Baker, a British architect of India's Parliament, North Block and South Block, in his October 1912 article - The New Delhi, Eastern and Western Architecture, A Problem of Style: 'First and foremost it is the spirit of British sovereignty which must be imprisoned in its stone and bronze. The new capital must be the sculptural monument of the good government and unity which India, for the first time in its history, has enjoyed un...Read More