Delhi Durbar Medals were instituted by the United Kingdom to commemorate the Delhi Durbar where the new Emperor of India was proclaimed, in 1903 for Edward VII, and in 1911 for George V.[1] On both occasions the medals were one and a half inches in diameter and were awarded in both gold and silver.

[2] They were worn in date order alongside Coronation and Jubilee medals on the left chest, suspended from a ribbon one and a quarter inches wide.

[4] Two hundred gold medals were struck for award to ruling chiefs and high-ranking officials.

30,000 silver medals were struck,[7] with 26,800 awarded to civic dignitaries, government officials, and including 10,000 to officers and men of the British and Indian armies.

[11] Duckers notes there must have been disappointment that a minority of men in a regiment got the medal whereas the majority did not, despite also having been participated in the same event.