Nawab's Durbar and Reception of the English Resident at Morshedabad, 1857. 'Durbar is the Hindostanee word for the Court or Levee of a native Prince; it also implies the hall in which such ceremonials take place. It is a scene of semi- barbaric Oriental splendour, which has nothing exactly to equal it in European court life. Our Engraving represeats the Durbar held on the occasion of the reception of a British Resident, or Viceroy over the native Nawab; the scene being at Morshedabad, which was once the capital of the province of Bengal, until superseded by Calcutta. It is now the principal ci
Nawab's Durbar and Reception of the English Resident at Morshedabad, 1857. 'Durbar is the Hindostanee word for the Court or Levee of a native Prince; it also implies the hall in which such ceremonials take place. It is a scene of semi- barbaric Oriental splendour, which has nothing exactly to equal it in European court life. Our Engraving represeats the Durbar held on the occasion of the reception of a British Resident, or Viceroy over the native Nawab; the scene being at Morshedabad, which was once the capital of the province of Bengal, until superseded by Calcutta. It is now the principal civil station of the district, and a place of considerable traffic. It is situated on both sides of the Bhagerattee or Cossimbazar river, the most sacred branch of the Ganges, about 120 miles above Calcutta. It is a large but meanly-built town, and contains about 160,000 inhabitants'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.
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