A century ago, in a tent city of 25,000 people built on the plains of north ,a new king stood before princes and maharajahs, soldiers and bureaucrats, and made a surprise announcement that would change the fate of this city. Delhi, the king said on that December day, would be the new capital of India.
"There was first of all a stunned silence in the audience," the British writer Geoffrey Moorhouse wrote of the announcement by Britain's King George V. "Then there was wild and incredulous cheering all around."
Image: In this photo provided by Alkazi Foundation for the Arts which is part of illustrations from the book "Power and Resistance: The Delhi Coronation Durbars edited by Julie Codell and Alkazi Foundation for the Arts," Begum of Bhopal bows before the Emperor and Queen Empress at Coronation Durbar in Delhi, 1911.
Text: Agencies
Pictures: AP
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