On December 12 last
year Delhi celebrated 100 years of the announcement by King George V that the
capital of India would be moved from Calcutta to Delhi, a year after the
Viceroy proposed doing so, for obvious geopolitical reasons. The announcement
was made by the British without any previous notification, during the
Coronation Durbar in a grand ceremony fusing the British and Mughal traditions
where they were proclaimed the Emperor and Empress of India, to commemorate
their coronation in
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