Scale drawing in pen and black ink of the end or side of the Amphitheatre, part of the Coronation Durbar complex at Delhi in 1911. The drawing shows in detail the structure and decoration of the Amphitheatre. The balustrades, columns, façade and roof are all embellished with carved detailing. A s...
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Scale drawing in pen and black ink of the Throne Pavilion from the Coronation Durbar complex at Delhi in 1911. The drawing is a cross section of the Throne Pavilion, with dimensions and details of materials used in the construction. Detail is also given of the decoration of the balustrade surroun...
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Carpet for the Throne Pavilion of the Coronation Durbar complex at Delhi in 1911
Scale drawing in pen and black ink with gold paint and red watercolour wash, of the carpet for the Throne Pavilion of the Coronation Durbar complex at Delhi in 1911. The carpet is red in colour, decorated with gol...
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Held in December to commemorate the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary as Emperor and Empress of India. Practically every ruling prince, nobleman, landed gentry and other persons of note in Indi...
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Article:
Delhi: December 12, 1911
By Sundeep
Outlook Magazine
From Sam Miller's Delhi, Adventures in a Megacity;
North Delhi is the city's most underdeveloped quadrant, as if someone had started building here and had run out of money. It feels deserted. Its roads are bordered by scrub an...
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A massive humanitarian tragedy - but one which barely gets remembered just sixty years on. Listen to 'The Things We Forgot To Remember' on the Bengal Famine.
By:
Michael Portillo (Guest), Nazes Afroz (BBC, Guest), Professor Christopher Bayly (St Catharine's Col...
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Digital Rare Book:
The famine campaign in Southern India, Madras and Bombay Presidencies and Province of Mysore, 1876-1878
By William Digby
Published by Longmans, Green, London - 1878
In Two Volumes
'Political Economy' says "Take care, my dear John. Don't interfere with the laws of supply and demand."
John Bull replies, "I don't, Miss Prudence. She demands and I supply."
Digital Rare Book:
On the impending Bengal famine: How it will be met and how to prevent future famines in India.
By Sir H.Bartle E. Frere
Published by Murray & King, London - 1874
Publishing from the 1880s through the first three decades of the twentieth century, Flora Annie Steel produced some thirty books. Most of her novels describe contemporary Anglo-Indian life, though some are set in Britain (seldom in England) and five are historical novels abou...
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Digital Rare Book:
Tales of the Punjab told by the People
By Flora Annie Steel
With illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling and notes by R. C. Temple
Published by Macmillan, London - 1917
Digital Rare Book:
Exposition of the practical operation of the Judicial and Revenue Systems of India - and of the general character and condition of its native inhabitants, as submitted in evidence to the authorities in England
By Raja Rammohun Roy
Published by Smith, Elder & Co., London - 1832
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IN 1940, Lady Yashodabai Joshi was urged by her family to write her memoirs. Yashodabai Joshi had been bedridden for six or seven years. She was not in a position to write her memoirs, as her fingers did not move. So she dictated...
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