List of eponymous roads in Delhi

This is a list of roads in Delhi, India named after people, organized by district.

## Central Delhi

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Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Road | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | 11th President of India. Formerly called Aurangzeb Road, after the 6th Mughal Emperor.[citation needed]
Ajmal Khan Road  | Mohammad Ajmal Khan | Founder of Jamia Millia Islamia.[1]
Amrita Shergil Marg  | Amrita Sher-Gil | Hungarian-Indian painter. Formerly called Ratendone Road. The road runs alongside Lodi Garden, which was previously called Lady Willingdon Park. Ratendone Road was named after her son, Viscount Ratendone.[1][2]
Baba Kharak Singh Marg  | Baba Kharak Singh | Indian independence activist. Formerly called Irwin Road, after British viceroy Lord Irwin.[1]
Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg | Bahadur Shah Zafar | Last Mughal emperor.[1]
Balwant Rai Mehta Lane  | Balwantrai Mehta | 2nd Chief Minister of Gujarat. Formerly called Curzon Lane, after the British Viceroy who oversaw the partition of Bengal, George Curzon.[1]
Dr Bishambar Das Marg | Bishambar Das | Das was a Punjab-born doctor who popularized homoeopathy in India. Formerly called Allenby Road, after British field marshal Edmund Allenby.[1]
Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg  | Jawaharlal Nehru | 1st Prime Minister of India. Formerly called Circular Road.[1]
Kasturba Gandhi Marg  | Kasturba Gandhi | Wife of Mahatma Gandhi. Formerly called Curzon Road, after George Curzon.[1]
Shrimant Madhavrao Scindia Marg  | Madhavrao Scindia | Union minister. Formerly called Canning Road, after British Governor-General Charles Canning.[1]
Maulana Azad Road  | Abul Kalam Azad | 1st Minister of Education. Formerly called King Edward Road.[1]
Rafi Marg  | Rafi Ahmed Kidwai | 1st Minister for Communications. Formerly called Old Mill Road, after a flour mill in the area.[1]
Rajaji Marg | C. Rajagopalachari | Last Governor-General of India. Formerly called King George's Avenue, after George VI.[1]
Rajesh Pilot Marg  | Rajesh Pilot | Union minister.[3] Formerly called South End Road[4]
Sardar Patel Marg  | Vallabhbhai Patel | 1st Deputy Prime Minister of India. Originally named Kitchener Road, after British Field Marshal Herbert Kitchener.[1]
Subramania Bharti Marg | Subramania Bharati | 20th century Tamil poet. Formerly called Cornwallis Road after the British governor general Edward Cornwallis.[1]
Thyagaraja Marg  | Tyagaraja | 18th century Carnatic music composer. Formerly called Clive Road, after first British administrator of Bengal Robert Clive.[1]
Tilak Marg  | Bal Gangadhar Tilak | Indian nationalist. Formerly called Hardinge Road, after British viceroy Charles Hardinge.[1]
Tolstoy Marg | Leo Tolstoy | Russian writer. Formerly called Keeling Road, after chief engineer of Delhi, Hugh Keeling.[1]
Vivekanand Marg  | Swami Vivekananda | Formerly called Minto Road, after British Governor-General 1st Earl of Minto and his grandson Governor-General 4th Earl of Minto.[1]

## East Delhi

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Haneef Uddin Marg  | Haneef Uddin  | Indian Army Captain who died while serving with the 11th battalion of Rajputana Rifles in the Kargil War.[5]
Maharaja Agrasen Road  | Agrasen | Legendary Maharaja of Agroha.

## New Delhi

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Akbar Road | Akbar | 3rd Mughal emperor.[1]
Alexander M. Kadakin Marg  | Alexander Kadakin | Russian Ambassador to India.[6][7][8]
André Malraux Marg  | André Malraux | French novelist and French Minister of Cultural Affairs.[3]
Aruna Asaf Ali Marg  | Aruna Asaf Ali | First Mayor of Delhi.
Bhai Vir Singh Marg  | Vir Singh | Punjabi writer.
Chelmsford Road  | Lord Chelmsford | Viceroy (1916–21).[1]
Connaught Lane  | Duke of Connaught | [1]
Dara Shikoh Road | Dara Shikoh | Eldest son of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. Formerly called Dalhousie Road, after Governor-General Lord Dalhousie.[9]
Gamal Abdel Nasser Marg  | Gamal Abdel Nasser | 2nd President of Egypt.[10]
Hailey Road  | Malcolm Hailey | British peer and administrator in British India.
Indira Chowk  | Indira Gandhi | Formerly called Connaught Circus, after the Duke of Connaught.[11]
Jai Singh Marg  | Jai Singh III | Maharajah of Jaipur State.[12]
Justice S.B. Road  | S. B. Sinha | Supreme Court Justice.[citation needed]
Justice Sunanda Bhandare Marg  | Sunanda Bhandare  | Delhi High Court Justice.[13]
Kamraj Road  | K. Kamaraj | 3rd Chief Minister of Madras State. Formerly called Dupleix Road, after Governor General of French India Joseph François Dupleix.
Kwame Nkrumah Marg  | Kwame Nkrumah | 1st Prime Minister and President of Ghana.[10]
Lodi Road | Lodi dynasty | Last dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate.[1]
Maharshi Raman Marg  | Ramana Maharshi | Indian sage.[12]
Archbishop Makarios Marg  | Makarios III | Archbishop and 1st President of Cyprus.[13]
Mansingh Road | Man Singh II | Maharajah of Jaipur State[11]
Mohammad Ali Jauhar Marg  | Mohammad Ali Jauhar | One of the founders and presidents of the All-India Muslim League.
Mother Teresa Crescent  | Mother Teresa | Formerly called Willingdon Crescent.[14][15]
Motilal Nehru Marg  | Motilal Nehru | Formerly called York Road, after George VI who was made the Duke of York in 1920.[11]
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Marg  | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | Founder of the Republic of Turkey.[13]
Najaf Khan Road  | Najaf Khan | Builder of Najafgarh and commander of the Mughal armies during 1772-82.
Nelson Mandela Road  | Nelson Mandela | 1st President of South Africa.
Prithviraj Road | Prithviraj Chauhan | King from the Chahamana (Chauhan) dynasty.
Rajiv Chowk  | Rajiv Gandhi | 6th Prime Minister of India. Formerly called Connaught Place, after the Duke of Connaught.[11]
Rao Tula Ram Marg  | Rao Tula Ram | Leader in the rebellion of 1857.
Safdarjung Road | Safdar Jang | Nawab of Awadh
Shahjahan Road | Shah Jahan | 5th Mughal emperor
Tughlaq Road | Tughlaq Dynasty | Dynasty that ruled the Delhi Sultanate from 1320 to 1413.
Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Marg  | Vijaya Raje Scindia | Rajmata of Gwalior State[16]
Dr Zakir Hussain Marg  | Zakir Husain | 3rd President of India.[12]

## North Delhi

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Sham Nath Marg  | Sham Nath  | Deputy Minister for Railways in the 1960s. Formerly called Alipur Road.[1]
Rani Jhansi Road  | Lakshmibai | Rani of Jhansi. Formerly called Mutiny Memorial Road [1](often abbreviated to MM Road)

## Old Delhi

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Ansari Road  | Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari | Indian political leader. Formerly called Darya Ganj Road.[1]
Netaji Subhash Marg  | Subhas Chandra Bose | Indian nationalist. Formerly called Elgin Road, after British viceroy.[1]
Swami Shradhanand Marg | Swami Shraddhanand | Social reformer. Formerly called Garstin Bastion Road.[1](Widely known as GB Road)

## South Delhi

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Benito Juarez Marg  | Benito Juarez | 26th President of Mexico.
Sri Aurobindo Marg | Sri Aurobindo | Indian philosopher and nationalist.
Josip Broz Tito Marg | Josip Broz Tito | Yugoslav communist leader.

## South West Delhi

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Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Marg  | Abdul Ghaffar Khan | Pashtun independence activist.[17]

## Roads formerly named after people

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The following roads were once named after people, but have since been renamed after something else.

Road | Named after | Notes

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Albuquerque Road | Afonso de Albuquerque | Portuguese governor of Goa in the 16th century. Renamed Tees January Marg, after the date on which Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on the premises of a bungalow located on the road.[1]
Baird Road  | David Baird | British general. Renamed Bangla Sahib Marg, after a nearby gurdwara.[1]
Havelock Road  | Henry Havelock | British general who recaptured Kanpur during the 1857 rebellion. Renamed Kali Bari Marg, after a Kali Temple built in the 1930s.[1]
Reading Road  | Lord Reading | British Viceroy. Renamed Mandir Marg, after the Laxmi Narayan Temple.[1]
Roberts Road  | Robert Tor Russell | Chief Architect to the Public Works Department who designed Connaught Place. Renamed Teen Murti Marg after Teen Murti Bhavan.[1]

## References

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9. ^ Nath, Damini (6 February 2017). "Dalhousie Road becomes Dara Shikoh Road". The Hindu. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
10. ^ a b "Africa's link with Delhi: grannies and streets". Telegraph India. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
11. ^ a b c d "Do you know where are Canning, Chelmsford and Hardinge in Delhi?". DNA India. 5 March 2017. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
12. ^ a b c Masoodi, Ashwaq (2 November 2016). "Where the streets have no (female) names". Mint. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
13. ^ a b c Hashmi, Sohail (11 February 2012). "Everything is in a name". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
14. ^ "Road renamed after Mother". The Times of India. 20 October 2003. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
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