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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 697 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DURBAR  , a

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term in
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India for a
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court or
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levee, from the
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Persian darbar . A durbar may be either a
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council for administering affairs of
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state, or a purely ceremonial gathering . In the former sense the native rulers of India in the past, like the
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amir of
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Afghanistan to-
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day, received visitors and conducted business in durbar . A durbar is the executive council of a native state . In the latter sense the word has come to be applied to
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great ceremonial gatherings like
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Lord
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Lytton's durbar for the
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proclamation of the
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queen empress in India in 1872, or the
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Delhi durbar of 1903 .

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