Parliament House and Sansad Bhawan are both used interchangeably in official parlance, while the building was named Council House when it was conceived by the British in the 1920s after the imperial capital was shifted from Calcutta to Delhi after the grand durbar of 1911.
Tryst with history
Kunal Dutt
One hundred years ago, when the nation was still in the making and Independence 26 years away, Britain’s Duke of Connaught laid the foundation stone of Parliament House and said it would stand “as the symbol of India’s rebirth to yet higher destinies”.
On Friday, a century from that February 12, 1921 day, as parliamentarians from various parties sat in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha for the budget session and work continued on a new parliament building close by, the milestone was a blip in history unnoticed by many.
The building, with a diameter of 560 feet and circumference of one-third of a mile, was designed by Sir Herbert Baker, who along with Sir Edwin Lutyens was chosen to design the new imperial capital in Delhi on a site in the Raisina Hill area.
Tryst with history: 100 years since Duke of Connaught laid foundation stone of Parliament House
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Last Updated: Feb 12, 2021, 04:13 PM IST
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On Friday, a century from that February 12, 1921 day, as parliamentarians from various parties sat in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha for the budget session and work continued on a new parliament building close by, the milestone was a blip in history unnoticed by many.
PTI
New Delhi: One hundred years ago, when the nation was still in the making and Independence 26 years away, Britain s Duke of Connaught laid the foundation stone of Parliament House and said it would stand as the symbol of India s rebirth to yet higher destinies .
One hundred years ago, when the nation was still in the making and Independence 26 years away, Britain's Duke of Connaught laid the foundation stone of Parliament House and said it would stand "as the symbol of India's rebirth to yet higher destinies".