Historical monuments and statues,
The good emotional feeling they makes,
What transpired the world before,
What exists the world we lives,
We get a glimpse of world history,
A practical study of events we inherit,
The handicraft from the people gone,
Their achievement, thoughtful deeds,
The expressions in statues, 
The mighty emperors who rules the country,
The ruins from history we inherits,
A visitor always rejoice in seeing,
What beauty lies in the countless visits,
Do oh thee that beautiful monument of ours,
And as we wish to see it again and again,
As we wish to see it later and now,
We hope, that it remains as good as new,
Those pillars tall, still reaching the skies,
Those holy sites, as peaceful as can be,
And that its heritage remains,
Its identity still prevails, 
And we, we help to PRESERVE,
PROTECT and POVERISH it to our best........


This poem, clearly reminds me of the park... Ever since i forst visited it, i have had an attachment to it, maybe a bond with the 5 dynasties who met there... It looks so dangerous yet serene, with the monuments standing away to glory all these years... Looking so beautiful and magnificent... And most importantly, withholding the history and mystery of all the events, fights and talks of the people... I sometimes wish these walls could speak... Whisper to me, something about the past.... And then.......
*The walls too have ears.....*

GALLERY

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Near the Mehrauli village settlement, in an area now designated as the Mehrauli Archaeological Park, are scattered various monuments—a legacy of centuries of architectural skill. It is of prime historical value in the local, national, and international context. The Mehrauli Archaeological Park covers 100 acres of green land abutting a World Heritage Site—the Qutb Minar. It is bound by the Chattarpur Road to the east and Qutb Complex in the north. 

This area is dotted with remains from every era of Delhi’s history—from the pre-Islamic to the late Mughal and the colonial period. The Tomar Rajputs established Lal Kot, the first fortification in Delhi here. The succeeding Chauhan rulers extended Lal Kot to form Qila Rai Pithora. In the late twelfth century Qutbuddin Aibak, the founder of the Delhi Sultanate, made this area the seat of Sultanate power. During the early Sultanate period several structures like tombs and mosques were built here. The trend of constructing monumental structures continued through the reign of successive rulers. Buildings like the mosque and tomb of Maulana Jamali (a sixteenth-century Sufi saint), Madhi Masjid, Rajon ki Baoli, and the tomb of Quli Khan (the foster brother of Emperor Akbar) were constructed within this area. Renovations like the extension of the Quli Khan Tomb into Thomas Metcalfe’s (commissioner of Delhi in the 1840s and 1850s) retreat and the conversion of the landscape through the addition of a bridge, canopies, and guesthouses were accomplished during the colonial era. The Archaeological Park has a varied landform with irregular rocky slopes, valleys, plains, and water bodies. The park contains several water bodies, some of them manmade. These include Hauz-e-Shamsi, Rajon ki Baoli, Gandhak ki Baoli, Jharna, and the depression below the Quli Khan Tomb which earlier formed a pond. The park also contains a variety of vegetation and landscaped gardens such as Metcalfe’s Garden in front of Quli Khan’s Tomb. Today the park forms a buffer between the settlement at Mehrauli village and the Qutb complex and is one of the city’s largest green space.  

For more information on some of the monuments there, please visit the MONUMENTS section..