The Archive · 1936

ROYAL DURBARS

the King, after his Coronation at The 1 announcement that Nov. 7.

Westminster, will pay a visit to India suggests that the date selected will be somewhere around December 1937, Speculation regarding the possibility that he will actually hold-a Coronation Durbar as King Emperor does not seem to be clarified. The precedents offer no firm guide, for the three monarchs who have ruled over India have all followed different courses of Jprocedure. The only common factor was the announcement of the assumption of sovereignty in Durbar, The word in this context has the most elaborate of its many meanings, It implies the full panoply of sovereignty adorning a solemn conclave in which the ruler and his subjects of all classes meet face 16] face. In British India officials from the district officer upwards

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