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Peacock Throne
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Peacock Throne: see Delhi Delhi , union territory and city, N central India. The union territory, officially the National Capital Territory of Delhi (2001 provisional pop. 13,782,976), 573 sq mi (1,484 sq km), is on the Delhi plain, which is crossed by the Yamuna River and stretches between
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The dazzle of the Peacock Throne or the pleasure gardens of the nobles and merchants were not enough to blind contemporary adventurers -- FranE*ois Bernier, for instance -- to the hopeless life of the unwashed majority.
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