Delhi Durbar Camp

In the official narrative of the durbars, whether that of 1877, 1903 or 1911, the princely camps were generally described as exhibiting an opulence that was picturesque but also extravagant and disorderly. This was contrasted with the order and restraint of the official British camps, with “wide, well-gravelled roads, green lawns, and parterres of flowering plants and shrubs, the white lines of tents, pitched with precision.” – Stephen Wheeler, History of the Delhi Coronation Durbar, 1904