Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, Vol. 216: Or Critical Journal; July, 1912 October, 1912; To Be Continued Quarterly
In spite of many telegraphed columns describing the imperial pageantry of the Delhi Durbar, and in spite of a very effective and wonderfully accurate reproduction of the most picturesque scenes by means of the kinemacolor, there is good reason to fear that the British public as a whole has so far failed to grasp the tremendous importance of the royal visit to India. Partly this is due to the necessary preoccupation of Englishmen at home with their own domestic politics. During a large part of the time that the King was in India the fate of the Insurance Bill - probably one of the most far-reaching measures ever submitted to Parliament - was still in suspense, and to Englishmen interested in party politics the question whether the Unionists would have courage to advise the Lords to reject the Bill was more exciting than the progress of their Sovereign through the cities of his Indian Empire.
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