The first acquaintance. The prospectus

you are: the First acquaintance

Hardly a snow-white colonnade the big round building of parliament more to the left rises. Behind extensive lawns with ponds, and with that and on the other hand Radzh-patha, - various office buildings. The prospectus rests against a monumental arch which name Collars of India. It is a memorial with eternal fire in honour of the Indian soldiers who have fallen in days of the First World War.

The Prospectus - a place of military parades and demonstrations in Day of Republic on January, 26th. On its lawns meetings and meetings of political parties and public organisations are arranged. And every day on these lawns of thousand clerks spend the lunch break. They sit groups on a soft grass and conduct slow conversation or play volleyball.

J. Nehru with good reason named architecture of the basic buildings of New Delhi pretentious. Monumental structures represent mixture of the European Renaissance with east architecture. All architectural shape Radzh-patha, which at Englishmen was called Kings-uej (' the way of the king '), should symbolise on representation of colonizers firmness of their sovereignty in India.

But New Delhi is all some decades in a city life. Its history is slightly opened for us by the rests of seven other cities which one behind another arose in its present territory, becoming capitals of dynasties replacing each other.

History Stones tell about a birth and falling of dynasties, about ambitions radzhej, sultans and other governors, about their not stopping struggle for the power and influence, for expansion of limits of the states. Past monuments is simultaneously and an embodiment of the genius of the Indian people inherent in it of thin feeling of beauty, the high art embodied in creations of his hands.