Well although Mr. Shakespeare had made it amply clear that there’s nothing much in the name, however the name I have chosen to discuss today holds a lot of relevance in every dilli walla’s life since every dilli walla would have been to this place sometime or the other in their life either for their own work or at times just accompanying a friend or family. The place we are talking about today is the oldest district courts of dilli the Tis Hazari courts.
I can bet every time people pass by the place they would have always wondered about the reason behind the name of this place and would have comfortably made their own assumptions about the same. A general assumption made about the name is that the symbolic building which stands there as the Tis Hazari court houses 30,000 rooms.
‘Tis’ means ‘thirty’ and ‘Hazari’ means ‘thousand’ and the name comes from an event which dates all the way back to the 18th century and precisely to the year 1783, when a force of 30,000 Shikhs under the command of their then military general ‘Baghel Singh’, encamped at that place waiting for his command on which they would have attacked Dilli.
On 11 March 1783, the Sikhs entered the Red Fort in dilli and occupied the Deewan-E-Aam, the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II made a settlement with them agreeing to allow Baghel Singh to raise gurdwaras on Sikh historical sites in the city and receive six annas in a rupee of all the octroi duties in the capital.
The courts were inaugurated at this place in the year 1958 and at that time it was the only court complex in dilli. Later many other district courts were branched out as the work load at the Tis Hazari court increased and as on date the Tis Hazari court has jurisdiction only over matters from Central, North and West Dilli.
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