List of eponymous roads in Delhi

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

Central Delhi

RoadNamed afterNotes
Aurangzeb Road Emperor Aurangzeb Aurangzeb road, after the 6th Mughal Emperor. Officially called Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalam Rd 11th President of India
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 MargBishambar DasDas 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 MargC. RajagopalachariLast 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 MargSubramania Bharati20th 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

RoadNamed afterNotes
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

RoadNamed afterNotes
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]
Copernicus Marg Nicolaus Copernicus Renaissance polymath from Poland. Formerly called Lytton Road, after British Viceroy Robert Bulwer-Lytton. The road was renamed at the request of Natwar Singh, who served as India's Ambassador to Poland in the 1970s.[9]
Dalhousie Road Lord Dalhousie Dalhousie Road(colloquially) after Governor-General Lord Dalhousie.Officially Dara Shikoh Road named after Eldest son of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.
Gamal Abdel Nasser Marg Gamal Abdel Nasser 2nd President of Egypt.[10]
Hailey Road Malcolm Hailey British peer and administrator in British India.
Connaught Circus Duke of Connaught Connaught Circus, after the Duke of Connaught.[11]
Jai Singh Marg Jai Singh I Senior most general and a high-ranking mansabdar at the imperial court of Mughal Empire[12]
Justice S.B. Road S. B. Sinha Supreme Court Justice.
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.[14]
Archbishop Makarios Marg Makarios III Archbishop and 1st President of Cyprus.[13]
Mansingh Road Man Singh I One of the Navaratnas, of the royal court of Akbar.[15]
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.[16][17]
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.
Connaught Place Duke of Connaught Connaught Place(Colloquially), after the Duke of Connaught. Officially Rajiv Chowk named after 6th Prime Minister of India.
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[18]
Dr Zakir Hussain Marg Zakir Husain 3rd President of India.[14]

North Delhi

RoadNamed afterNotes
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

RoadNamed afterNotes
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

RoadNamed afterNotes
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

RoadNamed afterNotes
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Marg Abdul Ghaffar Khan Pashtun independence activist.[19]

Roads formerly named after people

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

RoadNamed after Current NameNotes
Albuquerque Road Afonso de Albuquerque Tees January Marg 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 Bangla Sahib Marg British general. Renamed Bangla Sahib Marg, after a nearby gurdwara.[1]
Havelock Road Henry Havelock Kali Bari Marg 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 Mandir Marg British Viceroy. Renamed Mandir Marg, after the Laxmi Narayan Temple.[1]
Roberts Road Robert Tor Russell Teen Murti Marg Chief Architect to the Public Works Department who designed Connaught Place. Renamed Teen Murti Marg after Teen Murti Bhavan.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Soofi, Mayank Austen (4 September 2015). "Bye bye, Aurangzeb". Mint. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  2. ↑ "The Indian streets with an identity crisis". Financial Times. 21 September 2015. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  3. 1 2 List (13 September 2015). "City List – New & Old Road Names, Around Town". The Delhi Walla. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  4. ↑ "What's in a name? Just ask the netas".
  5. ↑ Elizabeth, Prapti (11 February 2017). "You Hear The Names Of These Places Every Day, But Who Are These People?". ScoopWhoop. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  6. ↑ "NDMC renames Officers Mess Road after former Russian ambassador Alexander Kadakin". Hindustan Times. 2 June 2017. Archived from the original on 3 June 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  7. ↑ "Delhi street named after Russia's late envoy Alexander Kadakin: PM Modi". The Indian Express. 1 June 2017. Archived from the original on 1 June 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  8. ↑ "Chanakyapuri road named after late Russian envoy Kadakin". Press Trust of India. New Delhi. 2 June 2017. Archived from the original on 2 June 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  9. ↑ शुक्ला, विवेक (12 September 2024). "नटवर सिंह का इंदिरा गांधी को पत्र और फिर... दिल्ली कोपरनिकस मार्ग के नाम की कहानी". Navbharat Times (in Hindi). Retrieved 7 January 2026.
  10. 1 2 "Africa's link with Delhi: grannies and streets". Telegraph India. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  11. 1 2 "Do you know where are Canning, Chelmsford and Hardinge in Delhi?". DNA India. 5 March 2017. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  12. ↑ "Jai Singh I", Wikipedia, 25 September 2025, retrieved 28 September 2025
  13. 1 2 3 Hashmi, Sohail (11 February 2012). "Everything is in a name". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  14. 1 2 Masoodi, Ashwaq (2 November 2016). "Where the streets have no (female) names". Mint. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  15. ↑ "Man Singh I", Wikipedia, 19 September 2025, retrieved 28 September 2025
  16. ↑ "Road renamed after Mother". The Times of India. 20 October 2003. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  17. ↑ "Living in the Gandhi home". Hindustan Times. 21 September 2009. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  18. ↑ Jain, Akanksha (26 October 2014). "RTI query on names of streets piques NDMC". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  19. ↑ Hashmi, Sohail (4 May 2013). "A road for wrong reasons". The Hindu. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
This page is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.