{"id":241495,"date":"2023-05-09T19:50:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T14:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=241495"},"modified":"2023-05-09T19:50:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T14:20:46","slug":"delhi-to-launch-haunted-walk-tomorrow-first-trip-to-malcha-mahal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/delhi-to-launch-haunted-walk-tomorrow-first-trip-to-malcha-mahal\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi to launch \u2018haunted walk\u2019 tomorrow; first trip to Malcha Mahal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the articl<\/span>e <b>\u201cDelhi to launch \u2018haunted walk\u2019 tomorrow; first trip to Malcha Mahal\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in <\/span><b>Indian Express <\/b>on <b>8th May 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Delhi Tourism Department is all set to launch its much-awaited \u2018haunted walks\u2019 and the first destination is the Malcha Mahal.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Malcha Mahal?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Malcha Mahal is located in Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was built in 1325 by the then Sultan Firoz Shah Tughlaq and was, for long, used as a hunting lodge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It later became the residence of the descendants of the Nawab of Awadh. It is said that it came to be known as \u2018Wilayat Mahal\u2019 after Begum Wilayat Mahal of Awadh, who claimed that she was a member of the royal family of Oudh. She was given the palace by the government in 1985.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The monument is not <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Archaeological Survey of India(<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ASI)-protected and, therefore, no attention was paid to it in all these years in order to conserve it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2019, the Delhi government received a proposal from the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) to restore the Mahal.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cDelhi to launch \u2018haunted walk\u2019 tomorrow; first trip to Malcha Mahal\u201d published in Indian Express on 8th May 2023 What is the News? The Delhi Tourism Department is all set to launch its much-awaited \u2018haunted walks\u2019 and the first destination is the Malcha Mahal. What is Malcha&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/delhi-to-launch-haunted-walk-tomorrow-first-trip-to-malcha-mahal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Delhi to launch \u2018haunted walk\u2019 tomorrow; first trip to Malcha Mahal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11212,7965,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-241495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701968869},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}