Title: Announcements by and on behalf of His Majesty the King-Emperor at the Coronation Durbar held at Delhi on the 12th December 1911, with correspondence relating thereto
Description: Includes a secret memo to the Marquess of Creeve, His Majesty's Secretary of State for India, from Lord Hardinge and others dated 25th Aug. 1911, proposing to shift the capital of India to Delhi from Calcutta, basing the proposal on the sociopolitical conditions resulting from the partition of Bengal, and the answer of the Marquess of Creeve, sanctioning the proposals and stating that Delhi would be declared the capital city of India on the 12th December 1911.
Subjects: Politics and government, Social conditions, Partition, 1905, Capital and capitol, History