Inside the Victoria Memorial in Calcutta is an inscription taken from the Message of Queen Victoria presented at the 1877 Durbar to the people of India: This was the culmination of transfer of control of British India from the East India Company to the Crown. It was attended by the 1st Earl of Lytton- Viceroy of India, maharajas, nawabs and intellectuals. The 1877 Durbar was largely an official event and not a popular occasion with mass participation like later durbars in 19. This illustration depicts some of the shān-o-shaukat (pomp and show) of the imperial assemblage in Delhi in January 1877Ĭalled the "Proclamation Durbar", the Durbar of 1877, for which the organisation was undertaken by Thomas Henry Thornton, was held beginning on 1 January 1877 to proclaim Queen Victoria as Empress of India by the British.
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