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Title(s)
Coronation Durbar, Delhi, 1911 / surveyed by Lieut. P.C.S. Hobart, R.E.
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Published/Created
Roorkee : Photo.-Mechl. and Litho. Dept., Thomason College, October, 1911.
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Physical Description
1 map : on linen ; 85 x 68 cm, on sheet 94 x 78 cm
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Textiles 17a
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gregory F.W. Todd, Yale BA 1976, in memory of Joan Castle Sitwell
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Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Maps & Atlas (printed)
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Scale
Scale 1:15,840. -- (E 77°08ʹ30ʺ--E 77°15ʹ00ʺ/N 28°45ʹ15ʺ--N 28°38ʹ00ʺ).
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Notes
The Coronation Durbar of 1911 was the only one attended by the British sovereign, George V (to mark his succession as Emperor of India). The durbar was held in Delhi on December, 12, "the most spectacular ceremony in the history of the British empire. The king-emperor declared Delhi the new capital and laid its foundation-stone (soon after moved when New Delhi was re-sited). ... This was the first visit (other than to Mediterranean colonies) by a ruling British monarch to an imperial territory, and it completed the ceremonial inauguration of George V's reign" (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).
The map includes a key to over 500 areas of interest for the durbar, including the central dais for King George V and Queen Mary, and the locations of Indian chiefs and various military divisions.
Scale statement on map reads "4 inches = 1 mile."
Signed in facsimile in bottom right corner: "Sgd. W.B. James, Major, A.Q.M.G." i.e., Major William Bernard James, 2nd Lancers, Assistant Quartermaster General.
"Zinco. Oct. 1911, No. 8377."--Bottom right corner. -
Subject Terms
Delhi (India) -- Maps. | Durbars -- India -- Delhi. | George V, King of Great Britain, 1865–1936 -- Coronation. | India -- Politics and government -- 1857–1919.
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Form/Genre
Cloth maps. | Cloth prints. | Linen (material) | Lithographs -- 1911. | Maps -- India -- Delhi. | Printed textile materials. | Textiles. | Zincographs -- 1911.
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