Steeped in history
- POSTED ON: 20 Dec, 2020
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- POSTED BY: Madhuvanti. S. Krishnan
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What do you know about some of our country’s iconic government buildings? Did you know that the Kerala Secretariat, or “Huzur Cutchery”, was first built as the Royal Durbar Hall of the Travancore Maharajahs in 1869?
Fort St. George, in Chennai, then Madras, was the first English fortress built in India in 1644.
Mantralaya, earlier Sachivalaya, which is the administrative headquarters of the government of Maharashtra, was once a seven-story. Well, here’s a quiz that will help you find out more such titbits about the important government buildings in India.