Khan Market, Lodhi Road & the Cultural Institutions of New Delhi

Khan Market (the upmarket shopping street in central New Delhi, built in the 1950s to serve the Government of India civil servants and diplomatic community, now consistently ranked among the most expensive retail locations in the world) and the Lodhi Road cultural corridor (the stretch of road from Khan Market south through the diplomatic enclave to the Habitat Centre and the India International Centre) form the intellectual and cultural heart of Lutyens' Delhi — the area where India's governing elite, academic community, foreign diplomats, and journalists have lived and worked since independence.