Delhi Past and Present

The gates on the river side of the city were the Khairati and Rajghat the Calcutta and Nigambod—both removed ; the Kela Gate and the Badar Rao Gate now closed.' The city is divided into two somewhat unequal portions by the Chandni Chauk which with the Lahore Bazar runs for just over a mile from the Lahore Gate of the city to the Lahore Gate of the Fort. [...] Beyond the north wall of the city and approached by the Kashmir and Mori Gates lies the Civil Station skirted on its south side by the sites of the siege batteries of 1857 and the cemetery and by the Nicholson and Kudsia Gardens and bounded on the west by the Ridge and on the east by the Jumna. [...] B. The road descends from the old magazine under the railway bridge and rises again to the level of the tail of the Western Jumna canal ; in the hollow of depression a broad approach leads on the right past the Mor Sarai and between the Begam Bagh and Railway Station to the Kabul Gate and on the left to the site of the old Calcutta Gate and the.jumna bridge beyond the Salimgarh outwork of the [...] Before that time the north side of the Palace between the King's Garden and the outer wall had become filled with mean buildings and the garden of the Commandant at the sides of the vaulted hall and the Artillery and Magazine quarters to the north of this had ceased to exist ; and all the south side of the Fort was full of debased buildings which were veritable rabbit warrens occupied by the [...] In the centre of the innermost court and on the edge of the wall rising from the river-bed here known as the Zer Jharokha or Beneath the Windows 1 stood the Diwan-i-Khas with the Royal Bath and Moti Masjid Regarding the Zer Jharokha (see note on p. 96) and the cermony of " darshan " or the king's showing himself to the people an annalist of the reign of the Emperor Aurangzeb writes as fo