How To Use Durbar In A Sentence
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Three times a week he holds a "durbar," for the trial of offenders and transaction of general regimental business.
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The concept of durbar reveals the jagadguru's benevolence for the welfare and well being of the devotees who participate to gain the acharya's blessings.
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Murals of the durbars and processions depict courtiers in their buttoned up coats and white trousers standing in neat rows like stick figures.
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It was while the shadow of this calamity, unparalleled since the beginning of British rule in India, was over the land that the most gorgeous "durbar" ever held in India was ordered for the purpose of gratifying a whim of Queen Victoria, who had induced
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Regimental durbars, semi-formal councils, enabled men to air complaints outside the usual hierarchy, and in WW I Indian soldiers on the western front were issued with the narcotic hemp they were accustomed to chew.
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Using this art, the ruler's secret agents and informers used to pass messages to him without the knowledge of outsiders or members of the durbar.
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Deenabandhu (C.F. Andrews) devi (Sarojini Devi) dharma dharmatma dharmsala durbar - court or audience-chamber of a king
APPENDIX I
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While the Mughal and Rajasthani miniatures chronicled wars and durbars and musical soirées, Praneet Soi's miniatures are about love and loss, about life in a changing India.
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In December 1911, when King George V and his queen came to Delhi, a durbar was held in the city to announce the contents of the proclamation made at Delhi to leading citizens of the city.
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Shortly afterward he and Queen Mary journeyed to India, where a spectacular coronation ceremony ( "durbar") was held at Delhi, which the king-emperor declared the new capital of India.
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For this purpose a durbar was arranged, and it took place about two days after we had been there, at eight in the morning.
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These concepts are reflected in great mosques, forts, durbars and palaces, gardens and pools, and finally, tombs.
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Iss raah pe jo sab pe guzarti hai who guzri Tanhan pase zindaan kabhi ruswa sare bazaar Garje hain bahut sheikh sar-egosha-e-mimbar Kadke hain bahut ahle hakam bar sare darbar" (I go through all that one goes through while on this path At times alone in jail, sometime defamed in the bazaar The sheikh denounces me from the pulpit And the ruler lashes out at me in his durbar).
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Indias Jammu-Kashmir state government functions from two capital cities, Jammu in winter and Srinagar in summer, a practice locally known as durbar move and started by Kashmirs ruler Maharaja Ranbir Singh in 1872. kanoisandeep Government planning to allow section 25 companies to set up higher educational institutions tomhimpe By 2018, 67% Of U.S.
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The crowded figures in the royal durbar are not individuated but arranged in a social hierarchy of relative importance with the leading courtiers closest to the throne.
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Jacobabad a grand Durbar, which was attended by the Khan of Khelat and his once rebellious Sirdars.
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The leisured progress, the sensuous attention to phrases, coupled with nuances in phrasing, created the reverberations of singing at a durbar.
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In the durbars of the village chieftains they sang songs of war, victory and valour.
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A stage is prepared where Kansa holds his durbar.
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During a holiday to India in 1890, Abdul Karim recalls how "as Munshi to the Great Queen Empress, I called on the Viceroy Lord Lansdowne" and was invited to his 'durbar' or court.
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I can jump most wifi hotspots with my fone which is cool and will save me money, so use that a lot to email and bank, also a lot safer with own hardware as PCs may be infected with spyware etc. P.O. Box: 1016, Durbar Marg Kathmandu, Nepal
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Open House London Close to St. James Park is the normally off-limits Victorian-era Foreign Office and Indian Office complex, whose highlight—the dazzling Italy-meets-India Durbar Court—is a three-story riot of Doric and Ionic columns capped by a magnificently frescoed vaulted ceiling.
Open House
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But today, few have managed to make from the courts and durbars to proscenium.
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Close to St. James Park is the normally off-limits Victorian-era Foreign Office and Indian Office complex, whose highlight—the dazzling Italy-meets-India Durbar Court—is a three-story riot of Doric and Ionic columns capped by a magnificently frescoed vaulted ceiling. openhouselondon.org.uk
Come in, We're Open
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Dance has moved from temples to durbars and now to the public stage.
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Pigeons scatter as a man walks home after offering prayers at a nearby temple at Bashantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu.
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And Lord Lytton, the conservative viceroy whose elaborately choreographed durbar Cannadine interprets as Britain's homage to India's deeply rooted "feudal order" and to the princes who were both its "expression" and its "apogee," explained the ornateness of that ceremony in pragmatic, rather disdainful terms: "The further East you go, the greater becomes the importance of a bit of bunting.
A Bit of Bunting
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Despite this association, he writes that it is used on ‘joyous ceremonial occasions’, and it is this chair type that the Asantehene typically occupies during major durbars.
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They can now avail the studio facilities offered by the Akademi at the Durbar Hall Art Centre in the city.
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In fact the diorama of the Sultan's durbar could have been taken from an illustration of the court of one of the old princes of God's Own Country!
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The Ghazal singer tells us her father was a classical singer in the durbar of the Gaekwads of Baroda.
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I sensed there was something up as soon as I presented myself in the durbar room; she was perfectly pleasant, vivacious even, as she told me about some new hunting-cheetah she'd been given, but her vakeel and chief minister weren't meeting her eye, and her foot was tap-tapping under the edge of her gold sari; ah, thinks I, someone's been getting the sharp side of missy's tongue.
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These included the distribution of huge amounts of various sweets at durbar or court during "public" holidays such as naw ruz or New Year's and other celebrations including the Islamic calendar holidays or eids, its nearly unlimited availability to accompany the tea that was continually consumed by those attending regular court sessions, its use during life course rituals for local notables such as weddings and births when Abd al-Rahman distributed bountiful helpings of sweetmeats to the family/families in question, and the huge supplies of sugar-laden drinks and edibles presented directly to domestic and foreign state guests during their stays in Kabul.
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Adhikari is just about to begin a little durbar at the Contai municipal office, about 150 km from Kolkata.
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At the 1911 durbar honoring his coronation as British king and emperor of India, George V declared that Delhi would replace Calcutta as capital of the raj.
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While those miniatures chronicled wars and durbars and musical soirées, these miniatures are about love and loss, about life in a changing India.
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Iss raah pe jo sab pe guzarti hai who guzri Tanhan pase zindaan kabhi ruswa sare bazaar Garje hain bahut sheikh sar-egosha-e-mimbar Kadke hain bahut ahle hakam bar sare darbar" (I go through all that one goes through while on this path At times alone in jail, sometime defamed in the bazaar The sheikh denounces me from the pulpit And the ruler lashes out at me in his durbar).
The Times of India
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Poets of the Mughal durbar likened our muslins to baft hawa (woven air).
