Hello, you sputacular people. Welcome to this 619th episode of the History Ghostbump

podcast. Ghost Tours for the Theater of the Mind. I'm your host, Diane. And this is Kelly.

Kelly, on this episode, we're doing another one of our life and afterlife. This one is of

Janice Joplin. She lived hard. I guess you could say she died hard. And her spirit might still be here.

History tells the story of the world and of our lives.

Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.

Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the supernatural in central Florida,

it's the History Goes Bump podcast. And now this month in history. In the month of January, on the first in 1877, Queen Victoria was officially proclaimed as the Empress of India.

This was done at the first Delhi-Durbar ceremony. The term Durbar comes from the Persian language,

meaning a ruler's court and was adopted from Mughal traditions. Its purpose was to mark the

succession or coronation of British sovereigns as rulers of India

after the British Parliament passed the Royal Titles Act in 1876, thus transferring power from

the dissolved East India Company after the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Delhi was chosen as the location

due to its historical association with imperial power, even though Calcutta,

now Kolkata, was the administrative capital at the time. There have been three major

Delhi Derbar's in history, the first in 1877 with Queen Victoria, the second in 1903, coronating

King Edward the 7th, and the third in 1911 coronating King George V and Queen Mary.

The 1911 Delhi-Durbar announced the movement of India's capital from Calcutta to Delhi.

In essence, the first Delhi-Durbar was a calculated act of political theater

designed to cement British imperial authority at a crucial time in India's colonial history.

Everyone who loved her called her Pearl.

Janice Joplin was an energetic singer who lived life hard and fast. Her talent has been inspirational

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