ABSTRACT

In Aug-Dec 2006, the Conservation Studio team of School of Planning and Architecture in an exercise “The Past, Present and Future of the Mall that Shahjahan built”, documented and analysed the Chatta Chowk Bazaar, an imperial marketplace at Redfort in Shahjahanabad, the erstwhile Mughal capital at Delhi. This building was built by the fifth Mughal Emperor, Shahjahan, remembered globally because of his conception and architectural accomplishment of the world famous Taj Mahal at Agra.