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The 1911 Delhi Durbar was held in December 1911 following the coronation in London in June of that year of King George V and Queen Mary. The King and Queen travelled to Delhi for the Durbar. For the occasion, the statutory limits of the membership of the Order of the Star of India and the Order of the Indian Empire were increased and many appointments were made to these and other orders.
Delhi Durbar 1911, mit König Georg V. und Königin Mary auf dem Podest unter dem Baldachin.. Der Delhi Durbar (Hindi दिल्ली दरबार, Urdu دہلی دربار, „Hoftag zu Delhi“), gelegentlich auch Imperial Durbar, war eine Versammlung, die jeweils anlässlich der Krönung des britischen Monarchen zum Kaiser von Indien abgehalten wurde.
39 John Fortescue, Narrative of the visit to India of Their Majesties King George V, and Queen Mary and of the coronation durbar held at Delhi 12th December 1911 (London, 1912), p. 137. 40 40 ‘King George's reply to the mutiny veterans’, His Majesty King George's speeches (Madras, 1932), p. xxxii.
Of these, only 1169 were European. 3 This essay considers some comparisons that legal historians can draw between the coronation of King Charles III in 2023 and the Coronation Durbar held for Queen Victoria in Delhi in 1877, concerning oaths and speeches, the centrality of the Christian religion, and the importance of acts of symbolism.
With the Coronation Durbar of 1903, his predecessor Lord Curzon had written a new chapter in the history of the regalia of the Empire. With his characteristic thoroughness, Curzon had supervised its organization to the last detail. He even had a Circuit House especially built in Delhi. After the shift of the capital, this became
Delhi Durbar and Coronation: With King George V, Queen Mary.
The medal was distributed, not only to those present at the Durbar, but to others throughout India who contributed to the Raj. The ribbon was the same as for the medal for King George's Coronation, and while the obverse design is the same, the Durbar Medal is larger, being 1½ inches in diameter, compared with 1¼ inches for the Coronation Medal.
