A view from 1857: the walls of "Salimgarh," the riverside fortress built by Salim (or Islam) Shah, just to the north of what later became the Red Fort

Source: *a map from the Illustrated London News, Jan. 16, 1858**

"New Delhi" (Shajahanabad) shown amidst the ruins of previous "Old Delhi" cities (James S. Virtue and Co., London, 1858), with Salimgarh prominent in the foreground

Source: ebay, Sept. 2005

*The Palace and Selimgurh, from the Jumna, Delhi; a photo by Eugene Clutterbuck Impey, c.1860* (BL)

*General view of the uncompleted tomb of Islam Shah (commonly known as Salim Shah), Sasaram; a photo by Joseph David Beglar, 1870's* (BL)

One of the surviving bits of Salimgarh today

Source: http://www.gesteland.org/archives/001695.html
(downloaded Mar. 2006)