Chapter Questions
What is significant about the fact that Lord Lytton and his family arrived in Delhi by train and then chose to move through the city on elephants?
What impression did the viceroy intend to create in the minds of the Indian dignitaries by assembling so many of them together and bestowing banners, medals, and honors on them?
What might account for some Indians' remarkable changes of attitude toward the viceroy and the empire? How differently might a member of the Indian middle class or an unemployed weaver have reacted?