This video explores the dramatic political background behind King George V’s 1911 Delhi Durbar and how it led to the British Raj shifting India’s capital from Calcutta to Delhi. Learn how growing revolutionary unrest and assassination of British officials in Calcutta forced the colonial government’s hand in abandoning Bengal. We analyze how announcing the capital shift at the extravagant Delhi Durbar helped calm rising Indian anger against the British Partition of Bengal. See rare footage of the grand ceremony where George V proclaimed the newly built New Delhi as the seat of British Indian power. Discover why the British chose Delhi and invested millions constructing a new imperial capital city there. Examine complex motives, unrest, political tensions behind this pivotal event that still shapes Indian history today.
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