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Architectural style used by the British in India

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The British used different architectural styles in India. For their constructions in Calcutta when that was the capital, they used predominantly European styles. However, in the construction of New Delhi, they combined traditional Indian architecture with the classical arctitectural style of the Roman empire.

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