<P> Delhi had served as the political and financial centre of several empires of ancient India and the Delhi Sultanate , most notably of the Mughal Empire from 1649 to 1857 . During the early 1900s , a proposal was made to the British administration to shift the capital of the British Indian Empire , as India was officially named , from Calcutta on the east coast , to Delhi . The Government of British India felt that it would be logistically easier to administer India from Delhi in the centre of northern India . </P>
<P> Delhi had served as the political and financial centre of several empires of ancient India and the Delhi Sultanate , most notably of the Mughal Empire from 1649 to 1857 . During the early 1900s , a proposal was made to the British administration to shift the capital of the British Indian Empire , as India was officially named , from Calcutta on the east coast , to Delhi . The Government of British India felt that it would be logistically easier to administer India from Delhi in the centre of northern India . </P>
who shifted the capital of india from calcutta to delhi
who shifted the capital of india from calcutta to delhi
The Government of British India
The Government of British India