Distancing itself from Calcutta, built emphatically as the capital of an alien power, the colonial government wanted to rework its image by the shift to Delhi. And in Delhi, by building a city that took the history of previous Indian empires as its reference points, it sought to project at least a semblance of connection with the Indian people.
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