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Turning point · Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948
Delhi — the durbar ground
1 Jan 1903 — Curzon stages the Coronation Durbar: 173 princes ride past in order of gun-salute, a hierarchy of 21 guns down to 9. The pageant is the Raj’s theory of itself — permanence performed. It has forty-four years left.
This is one scene of Chapter 1 — The Raj at High Noon in Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948.
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