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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Durbar \Dur"bar\, n. [Hind. darb[=a]r, fr. Per dar?[=a]r house, court, hall of audience; dar door, gate + b[=a]r court, assembly.] An audience hall; the court of a native prince; a state levee; a formal reception of native princes, given by the governor general of India. [India] [Written also darbar.]
Wiktionary
n. (cx now historical English) A ceremonial gathering held by a ruler in India.
WordNet
n. the room in the palace of a native prince of India in which audiences and receptions occur
Wikipedia
Durbar (, , , , , ) is a Hindi- Urdu word, equally common in all North Indian languages and many other South Asian languages. It was the term used for the place where Indian Kings and other rulers had their formal and informal meetings, i.e. in European context, equivalent to a Kings Court.
Durbar is a Persian-derived term (from - darbār) meaning the kings' or rulers noble court or a formal meeting where the king held all discussions regarding the state. It was later used in India and Nepal for a ruler's court or feudal levy as the latter came to be ruled and later administered by foreigners. A durbar may be either a feudal state council for administering the affairs of a princely state, or a purely ceremonial gathering, as in the time of the British Empire in India.
The most famous Durbars belonged to Great Emperors and Kings. In the North, cities like Udaipur, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Jaiselmer, and Agra have palaces that adorn such magnificent halls. The Mughal Emperor Akbar had two halls; one for his ministers and the other for the general public. Usually Durbar halls are lavishly decorated with the best possible materials available at the time.
In the south of India, the Mysore Palace had a number of such halls, especially the Peacock Hall, having colour tinted glasses imported from Belgium, which were used for marriage ceremonies. The Durbar Hall in the Khilawat Mubarak, in the city of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, was the durbar hall of the Nizams of Hyderbad.
Beneath the main Dome of the Rastrapati Bhavan (Presidential Palace of India) is present, the grand Durbar Hall, where many state functions presided by the President of India are held.
Durbar can refer to:
- Conference of Rulers, a council of Malay monarchs
- Durbar festival, a yearly festival in several towns of Nigeria
- Durbar floor plate, a hot-rolled structural steel that has been designed to give excellent slip resistance on its upper surface
- Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, an Indian non-governmental organisation for sex workers
- Durbar (court), a historical Mughal court in India; also used for a ceremonial gathering under the British Raj
- Durbar (horse), a French racehorse, winner of the 1914 Epsom Derby
- Durbar (title), a title of honour in princely India
Durbar (known in England and the United States as Durbar II) was a French racehorse. Although not the best of his generation in France (he was inferior to both Sardanaple and La Farina), he proved too good for the leading British colts in the 1914 Epsom Derby, which he won by three lengths. His pedigree was controversial, with the British authorities not recognising him as a Thoroughbred. His racing career was ended by the outbreak of the First World War.
Usage examples of "durbar".
In another proclamation Lord Ellenborough announced that all the Affghans then in the power of the British government should be permitted to return to their own country, and that the Affghan chiefs who were thus released, were, before they passed the Sutlej, to present themselves at the durbar, or levee, of the governor-general in his camp at Ferozepore.
Three thousand days after these events, Prince Regulum Starbridge himself seemed to acknowledge this, when he took his oath of office in Durbar Square.
Hingona, the Mahratta Vakeels, or agents for the Gwalior Durbar, had an interview with him.
The bulk of the British army remained in the Punjaub for some months, various circumstances affording grounds for suspicion as to the good faith of the ranee and her durbar.
Durbar Sahib at Amritsar, even though the Akal Bunga and the Baba-Atal were added.
On the evening of September ninth, a pockmarked graduate student named Deccan Blendish stood in a crowd in Durbar Square to watch the first public interrogations of that season, a victory, if it can be called that, for a certain extreme faction in the school of law.
Professor Sabian had spent four months in prison, and on a public scaffold in Durbar Square the priests had made him eat the pamphlet he had written on the subject, page by page.
The Rajah of Berar, darker-skinned than the pale Scindia, frowned at the durbar in an attempt to look warlike, but said very little.
The durbar talked all day and no course of action was formally agreed, but at dusk Scindia and the Rajah of Berar conferred briefly, then Scindia took his leave between rows of brahmins who bowed as their ruler passed.
There were half a dozen men in the room, armed and waiting, and they included, inter alia, General Maka Khan, his knife-toting sidekick Imam Shah, and that crazy Akali who'd denounced Jeendan at the durbar.
So there we were, cocked and ready to fire, and beyond the river, although we didn't know it, little Dalip's throne was shaking, for it was touch and go whether the Khalsa, raging in defeat and convinced they'd been betrayed, would fight us or march on Lahore to slake their fury on Jeendan and the durbar.