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*[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2074369/ROBERT-HARDMAN-celebrates-greatest-earth.html The greatest show on earth: the [1911<nowiki>]</nowiki> pageant that marked the high point of Empire] Mail Online 15 December 2011
*[http://www.glimpseofempire.com Details] of the book ''A Glimpse of Empire'' by Jessica Douglas-Home, 2011, based on the diary and photographs of Lilah Wingfield who attended the 1911 Delhi Durbar. The website includes [http://www.glimpseofempire.com/photos Slideshow of photographs by Lilah Wingfield]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VCpkplKUf8&feature=related The Delhi Durbar 1911] www.youtube.com. Colour footage of the regimental marchpast at the Delhi Durbar 1911 from 'The British Empire in Colour' series, probably Program 1. The red coated unit marching past at the start is the [[66th Regiment of Foot|2nd Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment]].<ref>[http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=6353#p25763 Victorian Wars Forum thread] dated 17 December 2011</ref>
===Historical books online===
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/coronationdurbar030742mbp#page/n5/mode/2up ''Coronation Durbar: Delhi 1911. Official Directory''] Archive.org
 
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