Coronation Durbar Park
Coronation Durbar Park
Coronation Durbar Park
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Neighbourhood: Minto Road
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- GTB Nagar • 3 min walk
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shek2005
Mumbai, India817 contributions
Nov 2018 • Friends
Place of tourist interest, it is a park where quite some people visit..good open space and number of statues..
Written 23 December 2018
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bhaskarpsingh
New Delhi, India21 contributions
Nov 2017 • Friends
The Park was set up in 2011 by INTACH on the occasion of Centenary of the Coronation Darbar held in Dec 1911. It has statues of King George removed from the Canopy at India Gate and 4 Viceroys from Rashtrapati Bhavan complex. The park is dusty and poorly maintained with unused Interpretation Centre due to lack of Water supply to the Park. In spite of poor maintained lots of people come for morning walk.
Written 8 November 2017
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Mindful_Travels
New Delhi, India581 contributions
Jun 2017 • Friends
This is a nice open space. It hosts a number of old colonial statues but unfortunately they have no plaques on the statues to inform you who it is
Written 11 July 2017
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tripsmaker
266 contributions
May 2016 • Solo
It is a park on Burari Road close to Nirankari sarovar of North Delhi. It was the venue where Delhi Durbar took place, when Queen Victoria proclaimed empress of India. There is an obelisk on Durbar Park, which commemorate the shifting of Capital of India from Calcutta to Delhi in 1911 in presence of King George V and Queen Mary. It's now used for religious gatherings. It's a place of tourist interest, and British history in Delhi.
Written 17 April 2017
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lotusdiamond
Chandigarh, India1,251 contributions
Sept 2016 • Family
This park is of heritage importance and located near Delhi University. Totally neglect by the Government. The coronation park is one of the prime British Heritage of the colonial era. Total neglect of history and heritage. Queen Victoria was declared Empress of India at the Durbar held at this site during 1877.
Written 18 November 2016
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Satyendra Garg
National Capital Territory of Delhi, India6,946 contributions
Feb 2015 • Family
This Corantion Park saw the British grandeur at its best three times when Imperial Durbars were held at this site on 1st January, 1877 to declare Queen Victoria as Empress of India, on 1st January, 1903 to celebrate coronation of Kind Edward VIII and then, in the presence of King George V, the King of England on 11th December, 1911 announcing shifting of British capital from Calcutta to Delhi and laying the foundation stone of New Delhi here.
This place of the park was to be the Viceroy House but later on this was shifted to present Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi as this place was not found suitable for the new capital.
Today there are 7 marble statues, including that of King George V, which was installed at the canopy next to India Gate and later on shifted here. There are six other statues but there is no description and statues look damaged.
Except for these statues there is nothing else and the place gives an impression of desolation, disuse and neglect. Unless very keen on getting the feel of the place, one can avoid this place.
There is a memorial at the place of Durbar in the form of an obelisk with steps on all four sides, with a badly spelled plaque which misspels common words like allegiance and all U are wrongly replaced by V, making it a bad case of our neglect of history and heritage.
This place of the park was to be the Viceroy House but later on this was shifted to present Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi as this place was not found suitable for the new capital.
Today there are 7 marble statues, including that of King George V, which was installed at the canopy next to India Gate and later on shifted here. There are six other statues but there is no description and statues look damaged.
Except for these statues there is nothing else and the place gives an impression of desolation, disuse and neglect. Unless very keen on getting the feel of the place, one can avoid this place.
There is a memorial at the place of Durbar in the form of an obelisk with steps on all four sides, with a badly spelled plaque which misspels common words like allegiance and all U are wrongly replaced by V, making it a bad case of our neglect of history and heritage.
Written 24 February 2015
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Bornav
Assam, India11,093 contributions
Oct 2013 • Friends
Delhi has over 170 monuments of various historic periods scattered all over the city and most of them, which do not feature as tourist spots, have been neglected by the authorities. The Coronation Park is one of the prime Britsh heritage spots of the colonial era located near the Delhi University.
While local authorities go on erecting garlanded statues of politicians, they have ignored the historic statues of the erstwhile emperors of India.
While local authorities go on erecting garlanded statues of politicians, they have ignored the historic statues of the erstwhile emperors of India.
Written 14 March 2014
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Ximena
Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile111 contributions
Jan 2014 • Couples
We will visit again the next time we are in Delhi. The park is being upgraded and the British statues were covered to protect them. We were told that next year the work will be finished.
Written 1 February 2014
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Peter S
Canberra, Australia348 contributions
Jan 2014 • Solo
I understand India's ambivalence towards its erstwhile British rulers, and can see why the site of the imperial durbars isn't high on the list of things-to-renovate. I can understand that statues of former viceroys should be consigned to a bare stretch of waste ground somewhere north of Delhi University near the suburb-cum-slum of Kingsway Camp.
But what I can't understand is that having decided nearly ten years ago that the site should be given a make-over why it still looks like waste ground, and why the renovations are - like so much in Delhi - half-finished.
Unless you are both knowledgable and enthusiastic about imperial statuary - all unidentified because someone has knocked off the identifying panels - don't bother. Look it up on Wikipedia and save yourself a visit that will take about an hour to get from Delhi Uni because the traffic is so bad.
But what I can't understand is that having decided nearly ten years ago that the site should be given a make-over why it still looks like waste ground, and why the renovations are - like so much in Delhi - half-finished.
Unless you are both knowledgable and enthusiastic about imperial statuary - all unidentified because someone has knocked off the identifying panels - don't bother. Look it up on Wikipedia and save yourself a visit that will take about an hour to get from Delhi Uni because the traffic is so bad.
Written 5 January 2014
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lampy12
Grand Rapids, MI69 contributions
Jan 2012
This park COULD be nice, if it were maintained and if the construction currently underway turns out as planned. Don't miss the tallest statue of King George IV in the world. I feel kinda sorry for him out here in the middle of nowhere.
Written 14 May 2012
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