DURBAR  , a See also:

• TERM

term in See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India for a See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court or See also:

• LEVEE (from Fr. lever, to raise)
• LEVEE (from the French substantival use of lever, to rise; there is no French substantival use of levee in the English sense)

levee, from the See also:

• PERSIAN
• PERSIAN, SYRIAN, EGYPTIAN AND TURKISH

Persian darbar . A durbar may be either a See also:

• COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council for administering affairs of See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state, or a purely ceremonial gathering . In the former sense the native rulers of India in the past, like the See also:

• AMIR, or AMEER (an Arabic word meaning " commander," from the root amr, " commanding ")

amir of See also:

• AFGHANISTAN

Afghanistan to-See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

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 See also:

• GREAT

great ceremonial gatherings like See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord See also:

• LYTTON, EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON, BULWERLYTTON, 1ST BARON (1803-1873)
• LYTTON, EDWARD ROBERT

Lytton's durbar for the See also:

• PROCLAMATION (Lat. proclamare, to make public by announcement)

proclamation of the See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

queen empress in India in 1872, or the See also:

• DELHI, DEHLI

Delhi durbar of 1903 .