Titus Museum

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The Titus Museum of Transportation and Collectibles
Established2003;16 years ago (2003)
Location Delhi, India
Coordinates 28°27′22″N77°09′18″W / 28.456°N 77.155°W / 28.456; -77.155 Coordinates: 28°27′22″N77°09′18″W / 28.456°N 77.155°W / 28.456; -77.155
Type automobile museum
FounderDiljeet Titus

The Titus Museum is an automobile museum in Delhi, India. It displays vintage and classic car models from the personal collection of its founder Diljeet Titus. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Delhi Megacity and union territory of India, containing the national capital

Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT), is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. It is bordered by Haryana on three sides and by Uttar Pradesh to the east. The NCT covers an area of 1,484 square kilometres (573 sq mi). According to the 2011 census, Delhi's city proper population was over 11 million, the second-highest in India after Mumbai, while the whole NCT's population was about 16.8 million. Delhi's urban area is now considered to extend beyond the NCT boundaries, and include the neighboring satellite cities of Ghaziabad, Noida, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Bahadurgarh and Sonipat in an area now called Central National Capital Region (CNCR) and had an estimated 2016 population of over 26 million people, making it the world's second-largest urban area according to the United Nations. As of 2016, recent estimates of the metro economy of its urban area have ranked Delhi either the most or second-most productive metro area of India. Delhi is the second-wealthiest city in India after Mumbai and is home to 18 billionaires and 23,000 millionaires. Delhi ranks fifth among the Indian states and union territories in human development index. Delhi has the second-highest GDP per capita in India.Furthermore, it is considered one of the world's most polluted city by particulate matter concentration.

India Country in South Asia

India is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.

Vintage car cars made between 1919 and 1925 or 1930

A vintage car is, in the most general sense, an old automobile, and in the narrower senses of car enthusiasts and collectors, it is a car from the period of 1919 to 1930. Such enthusiasts have categorization schemes for ages of cars that enforce distinctions between antique cars, vintage cars, classic cars, and so on. The classification criteria vary, but consensus within any country is often maintained by major car clubs, for example the Vintage Sports-Car Club (VSCC) in the UK.

Collection

The collection contains vintage and classic cars belonging to the Maharajas of several Indian princely states. [1] It includes 1933 Minerva Type AL, which once belonged to the Raja Sahib of Mahmudabad and the 1930 Stutz Series M 4 Passenger Speedster, which belonged to the Maharawal of Baria State.

Maharaja Hindu male monarch in South Asia

Mahārāja is a Sanskrit title for a "great ruler", "great king" or "high king". A few ruled mighty states informally called empires, including ruler Maharaja Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh Empire, and Maharaja Sri Gupta, founder of the ancient Indian Gupta Empire, but 'title inflation' soon led to most being rather mediocre or even petty in real power, while compound titles were among the attempts to distinguish some among their ranks.

Princely state Type of vassal state in British India

A princely state, also called native state, feudatory state or Indian state, was a vassal state under a local or regional ruler in a subsidiary alliance with the British Raj. Though the history of the princely states of the subcontinent dates from at least the classical period of Indian history, the predominant usage of the term princely state specifically refers to a semi-sovereign principality on the Indian subcontinent during the British Raj that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by a local ruler, subject to a form of indirect rule on some matters. In actual fact, the imprecise doctrine of paramountcy allowed the government of British India to interfere in the internal affairs of princely states individually or collectively and issue edicts that applied to all of India when it deemed it necessary.

Mohammad Amir Ahmed Khanراجا صاحب محمود آباد, Raja of Mahmudabad popularly known as Raja Sahib of Mahmudabad was a prominent politician and leader of the All India Muslim League, during the Pakistan Movement.

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References

  1. 1 2 "'It's an indescribable love for something special: Diljit Titus'". The Statesman. 2018-01-20. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
  2. ↑ Sharma, Aabhas (2006-12-17). "One young man and 33 ageing beauties". Business Standard India. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
  3. ↑ Thomas, Maria. "An Indian lawyer's incredible collection of vintage cars". Quartz India. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
  4. ↑ "Heritage on wheels". India Today. January 21, 2008. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
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