Shahjahanabad

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  1. Synonym of Old Delhi. historical
    — Shahjahanabad is a unique mixture of beauty and squalor, of memories of past greatness and evidence of present decay.[…]The task before us is to renew the essential character of Shahjahanabad while making it a healthy and wholesome urban area for its more than four lakh inhabitants.[…]At present we cannot earmark large sums of money for Shahjahanabad.[…]I hope the Seminar on Shahjahanabad will look for practical solutions to the problems of the Walled City.

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Borrowed from Classical Persian شاهجهانآباد (šāhjahānābād, literally “City of the King of the World”). Named after Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I (1592–1666), who had it built.
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