The Talkatora Stadium, Delhi's oldest indoor sports facility, is known for organizing some of the largest sports, cultural and political events. In the heart of the city, directly on the president's estate, the identity of the round -shaped interior arena is not only limited to being just a leading facility.
The stadium, built in 1974, is named after a garden from the Mogul era next to him. During the medieval era there was a reservoir (talkatora) on the location to collect the water that flows down from the streams of the southern central comb forest.
The word “Talkatora” comes from Persian words: “valley”, which means a tank, and “Katora”, which means a “shell form of natural depression”.
There is still an embankments in the interlocutor, the underlined historian SOHMI, with whom the water flow was once checked. He suggested that it could have been built by Firoz Shah Tughlaq, who took over Delhi's rule in 1320.
Speak to The Indian ExpressHashmi said: “It was made to collect water that came from several streams of the southern ridge – in the past this whole area was essentially wilderness. The embankments in the garden could have been made by Firoz Shah Tughlaq because it had done a lot on the water infrastructure. “
At the other end of the garden, which opens up in the Southern Ridge Forest, the remains of his past-a couple of small arched rooms, which are worn by pillars, stand a half-huge with weakly visible engravings and a few weathered walls with their rough surfaces that bear the markings of the time.
Hashmi suggested that the garden of Tughlaq could have been used as a hunting location. “There are two more from Tughalq's hunting huts in the area -the Malcha Mahal and one in the teen -murti complex,” he added.
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The garden was developed with elements from the architectural mogul traditions and has a symmetrical layout with a four-stage steps that is carved into the slopes of the Aravallis. Each stage of the departure was lined with wells and waterways and flanked by flowering flower beds.
Hashmi said the design of the garden indicates that it was built in the 18th century mogul rule. “Delhi was a dry area in the 18th century. It was not as green as today as the Rajasthan desert comes very close. Due to the shell -shaped lake, people around them have to gather, and many birds would have put on, which would have raised the mogules to surround the lake with a garden. “
The stadium recently made headlines when Delhi Minister Parvesh Sahib Singh spoke of a change of name. The stadium falls under the jurisdiction of the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC).
According to the NDMC procedures, an inquiry of the change of name must be submitted to its general administrative department. The proposal will then be given approval before his 13-person council. When it is adopted, it will be sent to the urban development of urban development in Delhi.
Past & present
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It is believed that the area around the Spectora stadium in the 18th century is an immense importance for military campaigns of the Maratha Empire against the Moguln.
On Saturday, NCP-SP boss Sharad Pawar wrote to PM Narendra Modi to enable the installation of three horse statues from Peshwa Bajirao I, Mahadji Shinde and Malharrao Holkar in the Talkatora Stadium. “… Many literary numbers and well -wishers have made the feeling that riding statements in full size would be a more appropriate homage to their bravery and contribution,” he said in the letter.
1737-38 the garden had turned into a battlefield on which the Marathas had driven up to this point in their attempt to attack Delhi. In 1803, the garden was in the center of another struggle between the British general Gerard Lake and the Marathas, whereby earlier control over Delhi was obtained. The area experienced again in 1857 during the first uprising against British rule.
Over the years, the ruins of the talkatora garden faded in the dark. Visitors who enter the garden now see a large board entitled “Talkatora Cricket Stadium”. There is also a much smaller sign “Talkatora Garden”.
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In the garden, modern amenities such as an amphitheater, a children's park, an open fitness center, a greenhouse, a Cactus polyhouse and a herb garden are well installed by the NDMC. The only shield that offers historical insights into the garden that was once installed by the Delhi government's archaeology department is broken, his text is completely illegible, which means that visitors to the rich past of the location are not aware of.
(with PTI inputs)