PROBASHI- A Cultural News Magazine Volume 2 Issue 2 | Page 37

Probashi- City
relationship of the new city to Old
Delhi and the cantonments“. This
was a tall order` to ask in a city
which had more than 2000 years of
history behind it. The search for the
site was an agonising process, the
Delhi Expert committee scoured
through the landscape both on the
North and South of Sahajenabad in
Ford Landauletter or De Dion cars
and even on elephant. The gruelling
heat and the sparse landscape
provided not only distress but also
wild animals and frayed tempers
amongst the committee members.
The cups of tea and cold bath at
Hotel Maidens and ofcourse the
scotch helped cool matters.
However despite its exertions the
Delhi Expert Committee could not
decide on the site, and Lord
Hardinge, the Viceroy took upon
himself to get the site finalised. He
wrote in his book The Indian Years,
“I, then, after rejecting the Malcha
site, mounted and as