Ludlow Castle No. 1 (Delhi)

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The place served as the Residency of the British political agent to the Mughal Court and as the headquarters of the Commissioner of the Delhi Territory within the North-Western Provinces. Until 1831 Ludlow Castle had been the home of Samuel Ludlow, the Residency Surgeon. The building then became the Residency itself, and was later the site of a battery employed by British troops during the Indian rebellion of 1857 to successfully breach the Kashmiri Gate bastion and thereafter to retake the city. After 1857—in the first few decades of the British Raj - Ludlow Castle remained the home of the Chief Commissioner; Delhi Territory, however, it become a part of the Punjab Province. Among its many guests during this period was the former US President Ulysses S. Grant.
During the late 19th century and much of the first half of the 20th, the building housed the Delhi Club. Sojourning there in 1916 was wedding party of Jawaharlal Nehru. After India's independence in 1947, the Ludlow Castle building was turned into a high school. It was demolished in the 1960s to make room for the expansion of the school, now the Government Model Senior Secondary School. The neighbourhood and the transit stop in Delhi, however, continue to be known as "Ludlow Castle." Now government change the name and called pratibha school
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Coordinates:   28°40'21"N   77°13'30"E

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