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Silent. English intertitles. With Our King and Queen Through India (1912) is a British documentary film. The film is silent and made in the Kinemacolor additive color process. The film records the 12 December 1911 celebrations in India which marked the coronation of George V and Mary of Teck and their proclamation as Emperor and Empress of India.
One of King’s most memorable experiences was residing at Mani Bhaven, Gandhi’s Bombay residence. He noted in the guestbook: “To have the opportunity of sleeping in the house where Gandhiji slept is really an experience I will never forget” (Papers 5:134).
King also visited Rajghat, where he was so moved that he knelt and prayed for a long time. Other spots on King’s Gandhi pilgrimage included the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad. His most memorable experience, however, was staying a night at the Mani Bhavan in Bombay, which was Gandhi’s main base between 1917 and 1934.
King’s arrival in India’s capital, a later flight took them to Bombay on 9 February. The three travelers were shocked by the hungry and homeless people they observed while driving to Bombay’s Taj Mahal Hotel. “The sight of emaciated human beings wearing only a dirty
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In this essay, Martin Luther King, Jr. shares his impressions and insights from his visit to India in 1959, where he learned more about the life and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of the nonviolent resistance movement against British colonial rule. King reflects on the similarities and differences between the struggles for racial justice in the United States and India, and the ...
Mounting political unrest prompted the first visit to South Asia of the Prince and Princess of Wales (the future King George V and Queen Mary). Their tour lasted from November 1905 to March 1906 (fig. 36) and was (indeed still is) the most extensive and far-reaching royal visit ever undertaken. [6] Facing opposition at home and in India, Curzon ...
