Delhi Durbar Dawns

Dignitaries including the Nizam of Hyderabad gather to celebrate the Durbar in honour of George V, who arrives by boat in Bombay (now Mumbai).

Dignitaries including the Nizam of Hyderabad gather to celebrate the Durbar in honour of George V, who arrives by boat in Bombay (now Mumbai) for the first leg of the royal tour of India on 2 December 1911. This was the first in a series of grand events celebrating the King’s coronation, the centrepiece of which was the Delhi Durbar, held on 12 December at a cost of over £1 million. This was to be the last of the three imperial Durbars held by the British Raj in Delhi.