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Updated: June 25, 2025
The rigmarole and mummery Winnie went through affected her exactly as it had affected her sister. It was all a hideous nightmare, and at any moment she expected to wake up in her cozy corner at Edendale. In the bazaars they began to laugh at Umballa and his coronations, or durbars.
It seems to have been in the course of the same year that Esarhaddon held one of those courts, or durbars, in Syria, which all subject monarchs were expected to attend, and whereat it was the custom that they should pay homage to their suzerain.
It is wholly foreign to India, and impudent and out of place. The architect has escaped. This comes of overdoing the suppression of the Thugs; they had their merits. The old palace is oriental and charming, and in consonance with the country. The old palace would still be great if there were nothing of it but the spacious and lofty hall where the durbars are held.
It is not a good place to lecture in, on account of the echoes, but it is a good place to hold durbars in and regulate the affairs of a kingdom, and that is what it is for. If I had it I would have a durbar every day, instead of once or twice a year. The prince is an educated gentleman. His culture is European. He has been in Europe five times.
He will play leap frog at Annandale; he will paddle about in the stream below the water-falls without shoes and stockings; but if you allude in the most distant way to rajas or durbars, he lets down his face a couple of holes and talks like a weather prophet.
It was strengthened also by the wonderful imperial pageants, like nothing else ever witnessed in the world, which began with the two Jubilee celebrations of 1887 and 1897, and were continued in the funerals of Queen Victoria and Edward VII., the coronations of Edward VII. and George V., and the superb Durbars of Delhi.
"They will flee from the lantern-light " "No, Your Ladyship. I'm not afraid of snakes except them Scotch plaid ones that come o' brandy on top o' royal durbars! This was the sound o' some one digging digging all night long down in the bowels of the earth! Look out!" They all jumped, but it proved to be only Tom's own shadow that had frightened him.
"It is Your Majesty's pleasure," the guest replied, and they drank together. "A seat for the Prince of India," the Emperor next directed. The chair, when brought, was declined. "In my palace for at home I exercise the functions of a king it often falls to me to give audiences; if public, we call them durbars; and then an inferior may not sit in my presence.
There, from Dalhousie and Canning to Lawrence and Mayo, and their still surviving successors, we have seen pageants and durbars more splendid, and representing a wider extent of territory, from Yarkand to Bangkok, than even the Sultanised Englishman as Sir James Mackintosh called Wellesley, ever dreamed of in his most imperial aspirations.
"We climbed to the marble court on the roof, where, canopied only by the sky and lighted by the moon, nocturnal durbars were held.
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