Indian independence · TURNING POINT ·
Victoria proclaimed Empress of India (1877)
On the Indian independence map as “Delhi — Empress of India”
1 Jan 1877 — Lord Lytton’s Imperial Assemblage proclaimed Queen Victoria Kaisar-i-Hind, Empress of India, before princes ranked by gun-salute. In the south the famine was already spreading, and critics then and since have set the pageant beside the relief camps.
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