The two Kashmir Giants posing with the American photographer James Ricalton, 1903

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The Durbar of 1903 was held in Delhi to celebrate the succession of the British monarch King Edward VII (the great-grandfather of the current British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II) as the Emperor of India. The Delhi Durbar was organized by Lord Curzon, India’s viceroy at the time. The original plan was for Edward himself to […]