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[[File:1863 Dispatch Atlas Map of Delhi, India - Geographicus - Delhi-dispatch-1867.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Historic map of [[Delhi]] ([[Shahjahanabad]]), 1863, showing Paharganj outside the city walls (''top left corner'')]] | [[File:1863 Dispatch Atlas Map of Delhi, India - Geographicus - Delhi-dispatch-1867.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Historic map of [[Delhi]] ([[Shahjahanabad]]), 1863, showing Paharganj outside the city walls (''top left corner'')]] | ||
[[File:paharganj main bazaar.jpg|right|thumb|250px|''Main Bazaar'' of Paharganj, Delhi]] | [[File:paharganj main bazaar.jpg|right|thumb|250px|''Main Bazaar'' of Paharganj, Delhi]] | ||
===Mughal era=== | |||
In the years after its establishment in 1638, [[Shahjahanabad]], the capital of the [[Mughal Empire]] under [[Shah Jahan]], was no longer contained within the walled city, it soon spilled into surrounding areas, stretching into miles at each end, where half of its population stayed.<ref>[[#Bl|Blake, p. 57]]</ref> By 1739, the suburbs covered 1800 acres and included areas like Mughalpura, Sabzimandi, Paharganj, and Jaisingh Pura. One of the largest and most important suburban [[mohalla]] of the Walled City of Delhi, and located just outside the ''[[Gates of Delhi#Gates in the seventh city|Ajmeri Gate]]'' of the [[Old Delhi|Walled city]], Paharganj was one of five main markets of Delhi, and the only one outside the [[walled city]]. Also, it was the principal grain market of the city in the 18th century, where grain was ferried, across [[Yamuna River]], from wholesale markets and warehouses in [[Patparganj]] and [[Shahdara]].<ref name=blake58/> Just outside the Ajmeri Gate was the [[custom house]] of the emperor, for collecting taxes.<ref>[[#Bl|Blake, p. 117]]</ref> Between Paharganj and Akbarabadi gate of the walled city was ''Shahganj'', another [[wholesale market]], while on the other side towards [[Jantar Mantar (Delhi)|Jantar Mantar]] was ''Raja Bazar''.<ref name=blake58>[[#Bl|Blake, p. 58]]</ref> In fact, Paharganj was also referred as ''Shahganj'' or King's ganj or market place during [[Mughal era]],<ref name=commons>{{cite book |title=House of Commons papers, Volume 18 |author=Great Britain, Parliament. House of Commons |author-link=House of Commons of the United Kingdom|publisher=HMSO|year=1859|page= 8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xr4SAAAAYAAJ&q=Paharganj&pg=RA2-PA8 }}</ref> it gets its present name 'Paharganj', literally meaning ''Hilly neighbourhood'', owing to its proximity to the [[Raisina Hill]], where the [[Rashtrapati Bhavan]] stand today. Till 1857, neighbourhoods like Paharganj, Kishenganj, and Pahari Dhiraj, were separate pockets which in the following years grew and merged, for example Pahari Dhiraj merged into [[Sadar Bazaar, Delhi|Sadar Bazaar]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Delhi between two empires, 1803–1930: society, government and urban growth|author=Narayani Gupta |publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1981|page= 61|isbn=9780195612592 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6SZuAAAAMAAJ&q=Paharganj }}</ref> | |||
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