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National Geographic : 1947 Nov
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The National Geographic Magazine Drawn by IH. E. Eastwood Differing Religions Split India into Two Dominions Political boundaries still are too indefinite for accurate mapping, but Pakistan roughly corresponds to the two large Moslem areas in black. Most of the rest of India is under the Hindu Dominion's flag. New Delhi is the capital of Hindu India; Karachi of Moslem Pakistan. Soon after Britain withdrew, bloody fight ing between the Moslems and the Sikhs and Hindus broke out in the Punjab, Calcutta, Delhi, and elsewhere. States, is a city of boulevards converging in large, confusing traffic circles. New Delhi also has its plazas, vistas, and reflecting pools. A city with one industry, government, it is built around the central seats of authority, the red sandstone and marble Government House (Plate II) and the twin Secretariat buildings (Plate VI and page 598). From atop Raisina Hill, these bulky struc tures of mixed Palladian classic and Indian design look along the broad Kingsway to an other hill where, four centuries ago, an earlier ruling house built the imposing Old Fort, or Purana Kila (page 630). On either side of Kingsway, official resi dences and the town houses of princely rulers stretch away in succeeding large compounds. A mile to the north lies New Delhi's unusual shopping center, a double ring of shops around Connaught Place and Circus (page 602). Far ther out in several directions is block after block of row houses where stenographers and messengers live. Socially, too, the governmental atmosphere has dominated New Delhi. Participants in the capital's gay social whirl moved according to the Orders of Precedence. Official flavor was rarely absent from parties in the Imperial 600
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