<P> Ahmad Shah Durrani invaded North India for the fourth time in early 1757 . He entered Delhi in January 1757 and kept the Mughal emperor under arrest . In August 1757, the Marathas once again attacked Delhi, decisively defeating Najib - ud - Daula and his Rohilla Afghan army in the Second Battle of Delhi . Thus, the Marathas established full control over the city . </P> <P> In 1803, during the Second Anglo - Maratha War, the forces of British East India Company defeated the Maratha forces in the Third Battle of Delhi, ending the Maratha rule over the city . As a result, Delhi came under the control of British East India Company . Between 1836 and 1858, Delhi was a part of what then known as the North - Western Provinces . </P> <P> Delhi passed into the direct control of British Government in 1857 after the Indian Rebellion of 1857 . The city received significant damage during the 1857 siege . Afterwards, the last titular Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar II was exiled to Rangoon and the remaining Mughal territories were annexed as a part of British India . </P> <P> Calcutta was declared the capital of British India but in 1911 at the Delhi Durbar of 1911, held at the Coronation Park, King George V announced the shifting of the capital back to Delhi . Parts of the old city were New Delhi, a monumental new quarter of the city designed by the British architect Edwin Lutyens to house the government buildings was inaugurated in 1931 after its construction was delayed due to World War I. New Delhi was officially declared as the seat of the Government of India after independence in 1949 . During the Partition of India thousands of Hindu and Sikh refugees from West Punjab migrated to Delhi, and subsequently settled in North and West Delhi areas, while Hindus from East Pakistan, settled in the late 1960s at EPDP Colony (EPDP: East Pakistan Displaced Persons) in South Delhi, later named Chittaranjan Park in the 1980s . </P>

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