The Secretariat Building or Central Secretariat houses the important ministries of the Government of India. Situated at Raisina Hill, New Delhi, the Secretariat buildings are two blocks of symmetrical buildings on opposite sides of the great axis of Kartavya Path, and flanking the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
North Block of the building
The 1931 series celebrated the inauguration of New Delhi as the seat of government. The one rupee stamp shows George V with the "asking Alexandria" and Dominion Columns.
Elevation of Secretariat Building, showing the four chhatris around the central dome.
Secretariat Building, New Delhi at night
Herbert Baker
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Sir Herbert Baker was an English architect remembered as the dominant force in South African architecture for two decades, and a major designer of some of New Delhi's most notable government structures. He was born and died at Owletts in Cobham, Kent.
View of the rear of Groote Schuur, c. 1905
The Honoured Dead Memorial, commemorating the Siege of Kimberley, was designed by Baker. The architecture was influenced by the Nereid Monument at Xanthus.
The McClean Observatory in Observatory, Cape Town, was designed by Sir Herbert Baker and was completed in 1897.