'The Viceroy's Camp at the Imperial Assemblage', January 1877, (1901). The Durbar of 1877, held at Calcutta, (modern-day Kolkata), was called the 'Proclamation Durbar' as its main purpose was to proclaim Queen Victoria as Empress of India by the British. The ceremony was attended by Viceroy of India Lord Lytton, and by maharajas, nawabs and intellectuals. From "The Life and Deeds of Earl Roberts, Vol. II. - To The Abdication of Yakub Khan", by J. Maclaren Cobban. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1901]