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Description: | This lithograph is taken from plate 24 of Emily Eden's 'Portraits of the Princes and People of India'. During Durbars, or receptions, the Governor General would sit in the centre, with the visiting ruler immediately to his right. Flanking them were the Government Secretary, who acted as interpreter, and the visiting minister, who acted as spokesman for the ruler. While discussions went on trays of presents were exchanged.
Eden wrote: "The conversation at receptions ... is generally confined to a brief usual routine of questions and inquiries ... mixed with boundless assurances of devotion on the part of the chiefs, and expressions of kindness and goodwill on the part of the Governor-General." Here, the Governor General Lord Auckland (Eden's brother) was receiving the Raja of Nahan, one of the Himalayan hill-states and now a district of Himachal Pradesh. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Publisher: | J. Dickinson & Son | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Eden, Emily | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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