India

[Svetlana]

What is the capital of India

[Loosehead]

New Delhi

[Svetlana]

Thank you to Loosehead!!!!!!!!!

[Bangkok]

I think it is now called Mumbai?

[Loosehead]

Mumbai is what Bombay is now/originally was called.

[kristy1989]

New Delhi

[Octavius]

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[Octavius]

1803, the British captured Delhi and installed a British administrator. Delhi was not the capital of India at the time, but it was an important commercial centre and had a population of 150,000 by the start of the 20th century.

When the British decided to make Delhi the capital in 1911, they built New Delhi in a grandiose imperial style, as if the sun would never set on the British Raj. Only 16 years after the city was inaugurated as the nation's capital, Delhi was torched during the trauma of Partition. In a matter of weeks it was transformed from a Muslim-dominated city of less than a million inhabitants to a largely Hindu city of almost two million.

India's biggest metropolitan agglomerations are Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Delhi, Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) and Chennai (formerly Madras).

Apparently 1 woman is raped every 24 hours in New Delhi.