Roshanara Bagh was originally developed as the garden tomb of Begum Roshanara, the younger daughter of Mughul Emperor Shahajahan. According to a study by the Eco-Transformation Centre for Environment and Uplift, the actual destruction of this garden begun about a 100 years ago, when the laying of Delhi; Ambala railway line had cut off the Northern periphery of the Roashanara Gardens. It also found the original formal design obscured by the winding pass. About a decade later the English and the Indian elite settling down in Civil Lines joined hands to form the Roshanara Club on the Western side of the garden.