It was a dazzling display of pomp, power, and split-second timing. The two full weeks of festivities were devised in meticulous detail by Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India. The durbar was held to celebrate the succession of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra as Emperor and Empress of India. Lord and Lady Curzon arriving at the Delhi Durbar, 1903. The durbar would later be seen as controversial because it directed funds away from the Great Famine of 1876–78. With this demand, it can be said that the campaign for a free India was formally launched, which was the beginning of a great transformation for India.
Her Majesty to grant to India the same political and social status as is enjoyed by her British subjects.
Joshi's speech put forth a demand couched in very polite language: It was at this glittering durbar that Ganesh Vasudeo Joshi, wearing " homespun spotless white khadi" rose to read a citation on behalf of the grass roots native political organization, the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha, which organization presaged the later rise of the Indian National Congress. The Empress of India Medal to commemorate the Proclamation of the Queen as Empress of India was struck and distributed to the honoured guests, and the elderly Ramanath Tagore was raised to the status of an honorary Raja by Lord Lytton, viceroy of India. 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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