[1] The British proposed the project after the Delhi Durbar in 1911, although due to World War I, it was delayed by around ten years till the 1920s.
[4] Originally King George V and Queen Mary announced the project, although it did receive major opposition from the European business community of Calcutta, along with Lord Curzon and Mahatma Gandhi.
[9][1] The duo decided that they would give the outside appearance for Indianness which would include the sunbreaker (chajja), latticed window (jali) and dome (chattri) and the rest almost entirely British in nature.
His original plan was to dam the Yamuna, behind Humayun's Tomb, create a huge lake and a riverside boulevard around it and enclose the Purana Qila in a reflecting pool.
[14] There were also Bandhanis of Punjab who were tougher and bigger to carry larger loads, in total there were 30,000 workers at the height of construction- they worked under a Scotsman named Cairn.
"[18] Dharam Singh Sethi had a monopoly on the marble and stone trade in North India, he used to import the materials from Dholpur, Rajasthan.
[19] Ram Singh Kabli had a monopoly over pottery and clay supplies hence had helped in providing the same to almost all houses created in the project, including design and furniture.
Narain Singh (originally a peasant whose father was rumored to have been a dacoit) had made most of the road development for the new city and laid the foundation for the Parliament House.
[23] His son Ranjit Singh, who earned money off his sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh, helped in the developments in Janpath and the Imperial Hotel which hosted many meetings between Jinnah, Nehru and Mountbatten.
Lachhman Singh Gill, who later became the Chief Minister of Punjab, also constructed large tracts in East Delhi which was originally barely inhabited in 1937 and would not be very populated till 20 years later.
[26] Lacchman Das and Seth Haroun Al-Rashid, both Sindhis, constructed were given charge of Government House and exterior of the North Block.
[27] As soon as Lutyens had marked the roads, they got William Robertson Mustoe, the man in charge of Kew Gardens, to set up a huge nursery.
[32] Uttam Singh Duggal- an aristocratic Partition refugee- held a monopoly over construction work and real estate in Delhi, he and his company had built Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.
[34] By the 2000s, the development shifted to areas around the Delhi Union Territory such as Gurgaon, Haryana and Noida, Uttar Pradesh under companies such as the Wave Group and DLF.