Delhi during Pre-Independence and Post-Independence: Its Formation and Tension

It is not unusual to lose sight of multiple sites of tension during any phase of city’s formation and transformation. A study of Delhi’s emergence as a capital city gives adequate space to locate some of these areas of tension. This article takes particular view of this aspect by probing the role of tension which lay at the background. The present paper uncovers a part of the background to demonstrate as to what happened to the large number of underprivileged when the restructuring of Delhi became synonymous with the search for beautiful urban meant for few rather than many.