DELHI

[s. 227] : A town of Punjab, India, 38 miles S. W. of Meerut. Noted for its wonderful old palaces and magnificent old buildings, in some respects the most beautiful and curious in the world. No city in India has finer thoroughfares than Delhi; most of its houses are of brick, well built and substantial. It is the easternmost of the great towns of the province, situated on a plain on the right fertile bank of the Jumna. It has great historical importance, having been the splendid capital of the Mogul (Turkish) emperor Shah Jihan, whose fine mosque, Jama Musjid, is a magnificent monument of the 17th century. Because Delhi was the former residence of the great Mogul, many Turks, Afghans, and Mongols have settled here, and life among the upper cla es has a decidedly Mohammedan character. Delhi was besieged by the English during the mutiny of 1857. Its population (1901) is 208,575, two-fifths of whom are Mohammedans and It is a station of the nearly three-fifths Hindus. BMS (1818), with (1900) 8 mi ionaries, men and Deacon e e a societies. 227