Exactly 108 years ago, on December 12, 1911, at the coronation of King George V as Emperor of India, he declared, “We have decided upon the transfer of the seat of the Government of India from Calcutta to the ancient capital of Delhi”.
The subsequent shifting of the seat of power of the British Raj in India was no mean feat. They had to shift all their offices and residential plots back, and form a new centre of power. So, in 1912, a town planning committee which included Edward Lutyens and Herbert Baker was set up to choose an appropriate site for the capital and also to design a new one.
