Rashtrapati Bhavan#Garden

The Governor-General of India resided at Government House in Calcutta until the shift of the imperial capital to Delhi. Lord Wellesley, who is reputed to have said that ‘India should be governed from a palace, not from a country house’, ordered the construction of this grand mansion between 1799 and 1803 and in 1912, the Governor of Bengal took up residence there. The decision to build a residence in New Delhi for the British viceroy was taken after it was decided during the Delhi Durbar in December 1911 that the capital of India would be relocated from Calcutta to Delhi. When the plan for a new city, New Delhi, adjacent to the end south of Old Delhi, was developed after the Delhi Durbar, the new palace for the viceroy of India was given an enormous size and prominent position. About {{convert|4,000|acre}} of land was acquired to begin the construction of Viceroy's House, as it was originally called, and the adjacent Secretariat Building between 1911 and 1916 by relocating Raisina and Malcha villages that existed there and their 300 families under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894.{{cite news |title=New Delhi villagers seek compensation 100 years after being evicted by Raj |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/8681785/New-Delhi-villagers-seek-compensation-100-years-after-being-evicted-by-Raj.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/8681785/New-Delhi-villagers-seek-compensation-100-years-after-being-evicted-by-Raj.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |publisher=The Daily Telegraph |date=4 August 2011 }}{{cbignore}}{{cite web| title=The history of Rashtrapati Bhavan : The official home of the President of India| url=http://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/the-history-of-rashtrapati-bhavan-the-official-home-of-the-president-of-india-1343022754-1| date=19 September 2015| access-date=19 September 2015| archive-date=28 November 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191128112810/https://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/the-history-of-rashtrapati-bhavan-the-official-home-of-the-president-of-india-1343022754-1| url-status=live}}

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The British architect Edwin Lutyens, a major contributor to the city-planning process, was given the primary architectural responsibility. The completed Governor-General's palace turned out very similar to the original sketches which Lutyens sent Herbert Baker, from Shimla, on 14 June 1912. Lutyens' design is grandly classical overall, with colours and details inspired by Indo-Saracenic architecture. Lutyens and Baker, who had been assigned to work on Viceroy's House and the Secretariats, began on friendly terms. Baker had been assigned to work on the two secretariat buildings which were in front of the Viceroy's House. The original plan was to have Viceroy's House on the top of Raisina Hill, with the secretariats lower down. It was later decided to build it 400 yards back and put both buildings on top of the plateau.

Lutyens campaigned for its fixing but was not able to get it to be changed. Lutyens wanted to make a long inclined grade to Viceroy's House with retaining walls on either side. While this would give a view of the house from further back, it would also cut through the square between the secretariat buildings. The committee with Lutyens and Baker established in January 1914 said the grade was to be no steeper than 1 in 25, though it eventually was changed to 1 in 22, a steeper gradient which made it more difficult to see the Viceroy's palace. While Lutyens knew about the gradient and the possibility that the Viceroy's palace would be obscured by the road, it is thought that Lutyens did not fully realise how little the front of the house would be visible. In 1916 the Imperial Delhi committee dismissed Lutyens's proposal to alter the gradient. Lutyens thought Baker was more concerned with making money and pleasing the government, rather than making a good architectural design. The land was owned by Basakha Singh and mostly Sir Sobha Singh.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qfuDnpVlmlcC |title=Sikh Achievers |date=2008 |publisher=Hemkunt Press |isbn=978-81-7010-365-3 |access-date=7 March 2024 |archive-date=18 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221218091820/https://books.google.com/books/about/Sikh_Achievers.html?id=qfuDnpVlmlcC |url-status=live }}

Lutyens travelled between India and England almost every year for twenty years and worked on the construction of the Viceroy's House in both countries. Lutyens reduced the building from {{convert|13000000|cuft|m3}} to {{convert|8500000|cuft|m3}} because of budget restrictions.

The gardens were initially designed and laid out in Mughal style by William Robert Mustoe who was influenced by the Vicereine Lady Hardinge who in turn had sought inspiration in the book by Constance Villiers-Stuart in her Gardens of the Great Mughals (1913). The designs underwent changes and alterations under subsequent viceroys and after Indian Independence.{{Cite journal|last=Bowe|first=Patrick|date=2009|title='The genius of an artist': William R. Mustoe and the planting of the city of New Delhi and its gardens|journal=Garden History|volume=37|issue=1|pages=68–79|jstor=40649671|issn=0307-1243}} After independence, it was renamed as Government House.Multiple sources:

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When Chakravarti Rajagopalachari assumed office as the first India-born Governor General of India and became the occupant of this palace, he preferred to stay in a few rooms in the former Guest Wing, which is now the family wing of the President; he converted the then Viceroy's apartments into the Guest Wing, where visiting heads of state stay while in India.

On 26 January 1950, when Rajendra Prasad became the first President of India and occupied this building, it was renamed Rashtrapati Bhavan – the President's House.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=31nqgwKuK3sC&pg=PA235|title=Law in the Scientific Era|first=M.|last=Hidayatullah|year=2004|publisher=Universal Law Publishing Company|isbn=978-8175342606|access-date=3 January 2024|archive-date=3 January 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240103235126/https://books.google.com/books?id=31nqgwKuK3sC&pg=PA235|url-status=live}}

Consisting of four floors and 340 rooms, with a floor area of {{convert|200000|sqft|m2}}, it was built using 700 million bricks and {{convert|3000000|cuft|m3|abbr=on}} of stone with little steel.{{cite news |url=https://news.abplive.com/news/india/rashtrapati-bhavan-340-room-building-that-took-17-yrs-to-construct-know-all-about-the-president-s-house-1543773 |title=Rashtrapati Bhavan |work=ABP |date=21 July 2022 |access-date=3 January 2024 |archive-date=3 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240103235801/https://news.abplive.com/news/india/rashtrapati-bhavan-340-room-building-that-took-17-yrs-to-construct-know-all-about-the-president-s-house-1543773 |url-status=live }}

The design of the building fell into the period of the Edwardian Baroque, a time at which emphasis was placed on the use of heavy classical motifs to emphasise power. The design process of the mansion was long, complicated and politically charged. Lutyens' early designs were all starkly classical and entirely European in style, although he wished to do it in classical Indian style – India never had a uniform architecture for public use. In the post-Mutiny era, however, it was decided that sensitivity must be shown to the local surroundings to better integrate the building within its political context, and after much political debate, Lutyens conceded to incorporating local Indo-Saracenic motifs, albeit in a rather superficial decoration form on the skin of the building.Inan, 100-101

Various Indian elements were added to the building. These included several circular stone basins on top of the building, as water features are an important part of Indian architecture. There was also a traditional Indian chujja or chhajja, which occupied the place of a frieze in classical architecture; it was a sharp, thin, protruding element which extended {{convert|8|ft|m}} from the building, and created deep shadows. It blocks harsh sunlight from the windows and also shields the windows from heavy rain during the monsoon season. On the roofline were several chuttris, which helped to break up the flatness of the roofline not covered by the dome. Lutyens appropriated some Indian design elements but used them sparingly and effectively throughout the building.

The column has a "distinctly peculiar crown on top, a glass star springing out of bronze lotus blossom".{{cite book| first1=Lucy| last1=Peck| author2-link=Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage| author2=INTACH| title=Delhi, a thousand years of building|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t-1PAAAAMAAJ| page=276| year=2005| publisher=The Lotus Collection, Roli Books| isbn=978-81-7436-354-1}}

There were pierced screens in red sandstone, called jalis or jaalis,Inan, 101 inspired by Rajasthani designs. The front of the palace, on the east side, has twelve unevenly spaced massive columns with the Delhi Order capitals, a "nonce order" Lutyens invented for this building, with Ashokan details.Inan, 102 The capitals have a fusion of acanthus leaves with the four pendant Indian bells. The bells are similar in style to Indian Hindu and Buddhist temples, the idea is inspired by a Jain temple at Moodabidri in Karnataka.{{Cite web|url=https://rashtrapatibhavan.gov.in/presidents-secretariat-making-rashtrapati-bhavan|title=The President's Secretariat and making of Rashtrapati Bhavan|publisher=Rashtrapati Bhavan|access-date=4 January 2024|archive-date=29 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229041417/https://rashtrapatibhavan.gov.in/presidents-secretariat-making-rashtrapati-bhavan|url-status=live}}

One bell is on each corner at the top of the column. As there is an ancient Indian belief that bells signalled the end of a dynasty, it was said that as the bells were silent British rule in India would not end.

Whereas previous British examples of so-called Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture had mostly grafted elements from Mughal architecture onto essentially Western carcasses, Lutyens drew also from the much earlier Buddhist Mauryan art. This can be seen in the Dehli Order, and in the main dome, where the drum below has decoration recalling the railings around early Buddhist stupas such as Sanchi.Inan, 100-102 There is also the presence of Mughal and European colonial architectural elements. Overall the structure is distinctly different from other contemporary British Colonial symbols, although other New Delhi buildings, such as the Secretariat Building, New Delhi, mainly by Herbert Baker, have similarities e.g. both are built with cream and red Dholpur sandstone.{{cite news |last1=Roy |first1=Siddhartha |date=6 September 2011 |title=The building Blocks of British empire |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi/the-building-blocks-of-british-empire/story-kzEfZTfFupNfU0m9qmpxuM.html |work=Hindustan Times |access-date=4 January 2024 |archive-date=4 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240104104221/https://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi/the-building-blocks-of-british-empire/story-kzEfZTfFupNfU0m9qmpxuM.html |url-status=live }}

Lutyens added several small personal elements to the house, such as an area in the garden walls and two ventilator windows on the stateroom to look like the glasses which he wore. The Viceregal Lodge was completed largely by 1929, and (along with the rest of New Delhi) inaugurated officially in 1931. Between 1932 and 1933 important decorations were added, especially in the ballroom, and executed by the Italian painter Tommaso Colonnello.{{Cite web| last = Perantuono| first = Carmine| title = In mostra l'arte di Tommaso Colonnello a Ortona| work = Rete8| accessdate = 28 February 2023| date = 27 July 2017| url = https://www.rete8.it/cronaca/123-in-mostra-larte-di-tommaso-colonnello-a-ortona/| archive-date = 1 March 2023| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230301015620/https://www.rete8.it/cronaca/123-in-mostra-larte-di-tommaso-colonnello-a-ortona/| url-status = live}}

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It has 355 decorated rooms and a floor area of 200,000 square feet (19,000 m²). The structure includes 700 million bricks{{cite book| last=Wilhide| first=Elizabeth| date=26 October 2012| title=Sir Edwin Lutyens: Designing in the English Tradition| page=50| publisher=National Trust| isbn=978-1907892271}} and 3.5 million cubic feet (85,000 m³) of stone, with only minimal usage of steel. Lutyens established ateliers in Delhi and Lahore to employ local craftsmen. The chief engineer of the project was Sir Teja Singh Malik, and four main contractors included Sir Sobha Singh. File:Jaipur Column from west with north block at Rashtrapati Bhawan.jpg

There were also statues of elephants and fountain sculptures of cobras, as well as the bas-reliefs around the base of the Jaipur Column, made by British sculptor, Charles Sargeant Jagger.{{cite book| last=Hussey| first=Christopher| title=The Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens| publisher=Antique Collectors' Club| year=1953|isbn=0-907462-59-6}} from west with north block at Rashtrapati Bhawan]]

The layout plan of the building is designed around a massive square with multiple courtyards and open inner areas within. The plan called for two wings; one for the Viceroy and residents and another for guests. The residence wing is a separate four-storey house in itself, with its court areas within. This wing was so large that the last Indian governor-general, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, opted to live in the smaller guest wing, a tradition followed by subsequent presidents. The original residence wing is now used primarily for state receptions and as a guest wing for visiting heads of state.

Gantantra Mandap (formerly: Durbar Hall) is situated directly under the double-dome of the main building. Known as the "Throne Room" before independence, it had two separate thrones for the Viceroy and Vicereine. Since Indian Independence, a single high chair for the President is kept here under a Belgian glass chandelier hanging from a height of 33 m. The flooring of the hall is made of chocolate-coloured Italian marble. The columns in Gantantra Mandap are made in Delhi Order which combines vertical lines with the motif of a bell. The vertical lines from the column were also used in the frieze around the room, which could not have been done with one of the traditional Greek orders of columns. The columns are made from yellow Jaisalmer marble, with a thick line running along the centre.{{Cite web|title=Durbar Hall {{!}} Rashtrapati Bhavan|url=http://rashtrapatisachivalaya.gov.in/rbtour/circuit-1/durbar-hall|access-date=12 January 2021|website=rashtrapatisachivalaya.gov.in|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108164342/http://rashtrapatisachivalaya.gov.in/rbtour/circuit-1/durbar-hall |archive-date=8 November 2016 |url-status=dead}}

Gantantra Mandap has a capacity of 500 people and it is here in this building that Jawaharlal Nehru took the oath of office of Prime Minister from Lord Mountbatten at 8.30 am on 15 August 1947.

Ashoka Mandap (formerly: Ashoka Hall) is a rectangular room of 32×20 m. It was originally built as a state ballroom with wooden flooring. The Persian painting on its ceiling depicts a royal hunting expedition led by King Fath-Ali Shah Qajar. The walls have fresco paintings.{{Cite web|title=Ashoka Hall {{!}} Rashtrapati Bhavan|url=http://rashtrapatisachivalaya.gov.in/rbtour/circuit-1/ashok-hall|access-date=12 January 2021|website=rashtrapatisachivalaya.gov.in|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161125052553/http://rashtrapatisachivalaya.gov.in/rbtour/circuit-1/ashok-hall |archive-date=25 November 2016 |url-status=dead}}

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The dome, in the middle, reflects both Indian and British styles. In the centre is a tall copper-faced dome, surmounting a very tall drum in several sections, which stands out from the rest of the building. The dome is exactly in the middle of the diagonals between the four corners of the building. It is more than twice the height of the building itself and combines classical and Indian styles. Lutyens considered the Pantheon in Rome as a model when designing the dome, although the exterior of the dome was also modelled partly after the early Buddhist stupas.{{cite web|url=https://www.architecture.com/explore-architecture/inside-the-riba-collections/rashtrapati-bhavan-new-delhi|title=New Delhi|publisher=Royal Institute of British Architects|access-date=4 January 2023|archive-date=9 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209101042/https://www.architecture.com/explore-architecture/inside-the-riba-collections/rashtrapati-bhavan-new-delhi|url-status=live}}

Mughal Gardens/Amrit Udyan (meaning:Nectar Garden) is a garden situated at the back of the Rashtrapati Bhavan. From Mughal Gardens, it was rechristened to Amrit Udyan in January 2023 by President Draupadi Murmu as part of the 75th Anniversary of Indian Independence celebrations,{{cite news |last1=Gupta |first1=Shubhangi |date=28 January 2023 |title=Amrit Udyan is new name for Mughal Gardens at Rashtrapati Bhavan: 'Historic...' |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/amrit-udyan-is-new-name-for-mughal-gardens-in-rashtrapati-bhavan-historic-101674906128910.html |work=Hindustan Times |access-date=1 December 2024}}{{cite news |title=Delhi: Mughal Gardens at Rashtrapati Bhavan renamed as 'Amrit Udyan' |url=https://www.siasat.com/rashtrapati-bhavans-mughal-gardens-will-be-referred-to-as-amrit-udyan-2513062/ |work=The Siasat Daily |date=28 January 2023 |access-date=11 December 2024}} though colloquially it is still known by its original name hence retaining the old name; the majority of the public articles still refer it by its original name.{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=O. T. |date=2025-06-04 |title=Guide To Lutyens' Delhi: History, Architecture And Colonial Walks In New Delhi |url=https://www.outlooktraveller.com/experiences/heritage/guide-to-lutyens-delhi-history-architecture-and-colonial-walks-in-new-delhi |access-date=2025-06-15 |website=Outlook Traveller |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Tyagi |first=Pooja Khanna |date=2025-02-03 |title=10 beautiful spring blooms to experience at Delhi’s Mughal Garden |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.in/story/10-beautiful-spring-blooms-to-experience-at-delhis-amrit-udyan/ |access-date=2025-06-15 |website=Architectural Digest India |language=en-IN}} The garden incorporates both Mughal and English landscaping styles and feature a great variety of flowers and trees.{{Cite news |title=Mughal Gardens will now be called as Amrit Udyan |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/mughal-gardens-will-now-be-renamed-as-amrit-udyan/article66443593.ece |work=The Hindu |issn=0971-751X |date=28 January 2023 |access-date=28 January 2023 |archive-date=28 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128133929/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/mughal-gardens-will-now-be-renamed-as-amrit-udyan/article66443593.ece |url-status=live }} The Rashtrapati Bhavan gardens are open to the public in February–March every year during Udyanotsav.{{cite news |title=President to open Udyanotsav 2014 at Rashtrapati Bhawan on Feb 15 |work=Biharprabha News |url=http://news.biharprabha.com/2014/02/president-of-open-udyanotsav-2014-at-rashtrapati-bhawan-on-feb-15/ |access-date=14 February 2014 |archive-date=18 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718001528/http://news.biharprabha.com/2014/02/president-of-open-udyanotsav-2014-at-rashtrapati-bhawan-on-feb-15/ |url-status=live }}

Main garden: Two channels intersecting at right angles running in the cardinal directions divide this garden into a grid of squares: a charbagh. There are six lotus-shaped fountains at the crossings of these channels, rising to a height of {{convert|12|ft|m}}. There are bird tables for feeding grain to wild birds.{{cite web|url=https://unb.com.bd/category/Lifestyle/delhi-travel-guide-must-see-places-and-fun-activities-in-the-indian-capital/123602|title=Top 10 Famous Tourist Places to Visit in Delhi, India|publisher=United News of Bangladesh|access-date=4 January 2024|archive-date=4 January 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240104003653/https://unb.com.bd/category/Lifestyle/delhi-travel-guide-must-see-places-and-fun-activities-in-the-indian-capital/123602|url-status=live}}

Terrace garden: There are two longitudinal strips of the garden, at a higher level on each side of the Main Garden, forming the Northern and Southern boundaries. The plants grown are the same as in the Main Garden. At the centre of both of the strips is a fountain, which falls inwards, forming a well. On the Western tips are located two gazebos and on the Eastern tips are two ornately designed sentry posts.{{cite web|url=https://thetravelandtourismtimes.com/mughal-gardens-of-rastrapati-bhawan-rechristened-as-amrit-udyan-on-saturday/|title=Mughal Gardens of Rashtrapati Bhavan rechristened as Amrit Udyan on Saturday|date=29 January 2023|access-date=4 January 2024|archive-date=4 January 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240104004651/https://thetravelandtourismtimes.com/mughal-gardens-of-rastrapati-bhawan-rechristened-as-amrit-udyan-on-saturday/|url-status=live}}

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Long Garden (or the Purdah Garden): This is located to the West of the Main Garden, and runs along each side of the central pavement which goes to the circular garden. Enclosed in walls about 12 feet high, this is predominantly a rose garden. It has 16 square rose beds encased in low hedges. There is a red sandstone pergola in the centre over the central pavement which is covered with Rose creepers, Petrea, Bougainvillea and vines. The walls are covered with creepers like jasmine, Rhynchospermum, Tecoma Grandiflora, Bignonia Vanista, Adenoclyma, Echitice, Parana Paniculata. Along the walls are planted the China Orange trees.

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In July 2014, a museum inside Rashtrapati Bhavan was inaugurated by then President of India Pranab Mukherjee. The museum helps visitors to get an inside view of the Rashtrapati Bhavan, its art, architecture and get educated about lives of past presidents.{{cite news |title=President inaugurates Rashtrapati Bhavan museum |url=http://news.biharprabha.com/2014/07/president-inaugurates-rashtrapati-bhavan-museum/ |access-date=27 July 2014 |agency=Indo-Asian News Service |work=Biharprabha News |date=25 July 2014 |archive-date=8 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808193655/http://news.biharprabha.com/2014/07/president-inaugurates-rashtrapati-bhavan-museum/ |url-status=live }} The second phase was inaugurated in 2016 by the President Pranab Mukherjee and the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.{{Cite web|last=Chatterji|first=Saubhadra|date=24 July 2016|title=Rashtrapati Bhavan museum ready to welcome visitors: 10 key attractions|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/rashtrapati-bhavan-museum-ready-to-welcome-visitors-10-attractions-of-phase-2/story-UqtexFwWsQUB0B32DfiRMM.html|access-date=23 January 2022|website=Hindustan Times|language=en|archive-date=21 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321003842/https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/rashtrapati-bhavan-museum-ready-to-welcome-visitors-10-attractions-of-phase-2/story-UqtexFwWsQUB0B32DfiRMM.html|url-status=live}} The museum has been built under the guidance of Saroj Ghose.

The first restoration project at the Rashtrapati Bhavan was started in 1985 and ended in 1989, during which the Ashoka Hall was stripped of its later additions and restored to its original state by the architectural restorer Sunita Kohli. The second restoration project, begun in 2010, involved Charles Correa and Sunita Kohli.{{cite journal| url=https://www.forbes.com/2007/06/20/072a.html| title=Lutyens' Legacy| date=2 July 2007| journal=Forbes| access-date=10 September 2017| archive-date=12 August 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812104356/https://www.forbes.com/2007/06/20/072a.html| url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Setting-the-House-in-order/articleshow/6179648.cms|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104111022/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-07-17/india/28307360_1_rashtrapati-bhavan-flooring-building|url-status=live|archive-date=4 November 2012| title=Setting the House in order| date=17 July 2010| work=The Times of India}}{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Kalams-thinking-hut-demolished/articleshow/6174242.cms|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104111028/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-07-16/india/28306415_1_apj-abdul-kalam-hut-restoration|url-status=live|archive-date=4 November 2012|work=The Times of India| title=Kalam's 'thinking hut' demolished| date=16 July 2010}}

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|File:25 01 2020 Banquete no Palácio Presidencial (49440207742).jpg|A banquet at the President's House

|File:President Trump and the First Lady in India (49596078821).jpg|US President Trump and the US First Lady at Rashtrapati Bhavan

|File:Rashtrapati Bhawan illuminated 2010 ashish17.JPG|Rashtrapati Bhavan
illuminated for Indian Republic Day

|File:Rashtrapatibhavan.jpg|Rashtrapati Bhavan night view

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• List of official residences of India
• The Retreat Building
• Rashtrapati Nilayam
• Rashtrapati Ashiana
• Rashtrapati Niwas
• Sir Herbert Baker
• Rashtrapati Bhavan Museum

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• {{cite book| first=Philip| last=Davies| title=Splendours of the Raj: British Architecture in India, 1660–1947|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HpeMNwAACAAJ| year=1987| publisher=Penguin| isbn=978-0-14-009247-9}}
• {{cite book| last=Gradidge| first=Roderick| date=February 1982| title=Edwin Lutyens, Architect Laureate| publisher=Unwin Hyman| location=London| isbn=978-0047200236}}
• Inan, Aseem, "[https://www.academia.edu/1901738/The_Emerging_Asian_City_Concomitant_Urbanities_and_Urbanisms Tensions Manifested: Reading the Viceroy's House in New Delhi]", in The Emerging Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities and Urbanisms, ed. Vinayak Bharne, Routledge UK, 2012
• {{cite book| first=Robert Grant| last=Irving| author-link=Robert Grant Irving| title=Indian Summer: Lutyens, Baker, and Imperial Delhi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bep-QgAACAAJ| date=May 1981| publisher=Yale University Press| isbn=978-0-300-02422-7}}
• {{cite book| first1=Aman| last1=Nath| first2=Amit| last2=Mehra| title=Dome over India: Rashtrapati Bhavan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ueMOAQAAMAAJ| year=2002| publisher=India Book House| isbn=978-8175083523}}

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• [http://rashtrapatisachivalaya.gov.in/rbtour/ Welcome to the Rashtrapati Bhavan]
• [http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020719/cth1.htm#13 She does Chandigarh proud, Research on Rashtrapati Bhavan architecture]

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