Delhi is no stranger to ostentatious displays of state power. A hundred years ago, it witnessed the biggest spectacle of them all, the Coronation Durbar of King George V, the supreme sovereign of the ...

The Delhi durbar tiara made in 1911 for Queen Mary to wear at the Delhi durbar same year will be shown to the public for the first time as part of a special exhibition of Queen Elizabeth’s diamonds at ...

With solid silver carriages, decorated elephants roaming as far as the eye could see, monarchs dripping with precious stones and even the king of the United Kingdom, the three Delhi durbars of 1877, ...

The year 1911 is considered one of the most prestigious years in the history of Delhi. On December 12, 1911, King George V, also the Emperor of India those days, declared Delhi as the new Capital of ...

When Robert Bulwer-Lytton, former governor-general of India, came to Delhi in 1876 to prepare for the First Delhi Durbar to be held the following year, he “mounted an elephant and went through the ...

With hardbound Oxford dictionaries and history books neatly tucked in a bookshelf; an English style ambience and dark wooden furniture serving as a backdrop, author, journalist and former South Asia ...

London: The Delhi Durbar Tiara, made in 1911 for Queen Mary to wear at the Delhi Durbar in the same year, will be shown to the public for the first time as part of a special exhibition of Queen ...