click for Other Tourist Place
Home
History
Gallery
Meena Bazaar
Other Tourist Place

Diwan-I-Khas Red Fort Delhi

Diwan-I-Khas Red Fort Delhi
Diwan-I-Khas Red Fort Delhi

Advertise here
Diwan-I-Khas Red Fort Delhi
The Diwan-i-Khas was the Emperor's private audience hall, a riverside palace reserved for ministers and high-ranking, favored visitors. Here Shah Jahan sat on his Peacock Throne at the center of his Fort, cooled by riverside breezes wafting through the floor-level windows, soft light reflecting off the gilded ceilings and walls, fine silk rugs strewn on the marble floor
Diwan-I-Khas Red Fort Delhi
The Diwan-i-Khas, the most richly decorated of all the Red Fort buildings, was Shah Jahan's private audience hall for the equivalent of his cabinet meetings. Its decoration is the apogee ofMughal taste, a carefully balanced combination of opulence, extravagance and refinement. In this corner, various elaborately decorated elements exist happily together. The marble piers and scalloped arches are carved and painted with cartouches and bold floral arabesques. They rise to meet two broad borders painted on contrasting grounds of white and gold which act as frames for the carved and painted lattice-work of the wooden ceiling
.
Diwan-I-Khas Red Fort Delhi
From the side of The Diwan-i-Khas 
The Diwan-i-Khas appears to sit lightly on the wall, belying both its massive weight of marble and its historical importance. The beautifully balanced facade is divided into five openings, with a blind arcade carved above two pairs of windows and a central triple one. It was behind this window that Shah Jahan sat in glory on his Peacock Throne. But the Diwan-i-Khas was later to witness some of the Mughal empire's most tragic events. In 1739 Nadir Shah plundered Muhammad Shah's Delhi and carried off the Peacock Throne to Persia. In 1788 the Rohilla Chief, Ghulam Qadir
Khan, blinded Shah Alam n and dug up the palace floors in search of buried treasure. And here in 1858 the British tried the last Emperor, Bahadur Shah 11, 'ignominiously for murder', as Wilfred Blunt, a great nationalist, learnt from an old dentist. 'He saw this last of the Mogul kings crouched before the Military Commission, dressed in a piece of sacking and a coarse turban, "like a coolie". Here, too, the English soldiers slew and destroyed some thousands of innocent men in revenge for the death of about one hundred. Such are the resources of civilization.'
Diwan-I-Khas Red Fort Delhi
Takh-te-Taus Red Fort Delhi
Takh-te-Taus
Emperor Shah Jahan, builder and patron of the arts, is shown here seated in the jewel-encrusted Peacock Throne he commissioned. The jewel merchant Jean Baptist Tavernier declared it to be 'the principal of seven magnificent thrones, one wholly covered with diamonds. 
the others with rubies, emeralds, or pearls.' Whereas this painting, an eighteenth-century watercolour copy of an earlier version, gives the throne a pair of peacocks, the more trustworthy Tavernier described only one.

....Back

Home
History
Introduction
Other Tourist Place
Live India
World's Most Beautiful Cities
Rajesh Chopra

Editor-in-Chief

LiveIndia.com

Rajesh Chopra
Privacy Policy for LiveIndia.Com

Press Information 
LiveIndia.Com

Copyright © 1998-2001 Live India Internet Services! All rights reserved
( The Trade Marks Act, 1999, No. 01403083. User Since : 01/04/1997 )

Legal Information
All rights reserved. No part of this publication and other sites of under liveindia.com may be transmitted or reproduced in any form or by any means without prior permission from the publisher Live India Internet Services or Rajesh Chopra, L.C.Premium Cables, 1826, Amar Nath 2nd Building, Bhagirath Palace Delhi - 110006, India. Liveindia.com or Mr.Rajesh Chopra is not responsible for any wrong information under this site, For confirmation of any information it is recomended that you can reconfirm from yours end.

Complete web site on Red Fort Delhi with large Gallery, Introduction, History and tourist information