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The Seven Cities of Delhi the recapture of the city. On the ist of January in the following year the first British Empress of India was proclaimed, according to ancient custom, at Delhi; the present emperor also was proclaimed there on January 1, 1903. The many camps round Delhi, the long procession of elephants, the presence of Mahomedan and Hindu feudatories from all India — all combined to recall the splendour, which Delhi has known in the past, which we have traced in the history of the Seven Cities. 304