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provincial status. It is no longer the seat even of a local
government. We are told that within the area of 45
square miles round Delhi there are the remains of no less
than seven cities, each of which represented the capital of
Hindustan in its time. To us it is not the extraordinary
wealth of Muhammadan architectural remains, nor the

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terest of its blood-stained records of Afghan and Turk
sovereignty, but the recent story of its capture during the
dark days of the Mutiny that keeps Delhi in national
remembrance. Like Cawnpore (the next great native city
which we pass on this route) it is hallowed to us by the
blood of our countrymen. Cawnpore (Kanhpur) is better
wnown by the glorious memorial of a ghastly sacrifice