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Delhi,

India

1911

 
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Coronation Durbar 1911 - Delhi. Post Office.

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So large an undertaking was the Durbar that it facilitated its own post office

Held in December, 1911, the Coronation Durbar was a mass Indian assembly where Queen Mary and King George V were proclaimed as the Empress and Emperor of India. After the ceremony, the couple appeared at the balcony of Red Fort to wave half a million people.

Today Coronation Park lies in a
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